7 Ga. App. 583 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1910
The proof shows that the defendant took a pay check of the Southern Railway Company, which was originally payable to one Herrington, and which had been indorsed by him, and changed the name to “Oerrington,” both in the body of the check and in the indorsement (which was in blank), He also changed the amount from $1.00 to $60.00. He attempted to pass it at a store in Rome, but the proprietor of the store, on account of the crudeness .with which the forgery had been executed, immediately discovered it and caused the defendant to be arrested.
2. The next .point he 'makes is that this pay check provides that it shall not be negotiable until countersigned by one of a number of named persons, none of whom had countersigned it. However, it was payable) and subject to assignment (though not of commercial hiegotiation), without this countersigning. It is not necessary that an instrument be negotiable, in order to be the subject-matter of a forgery. Judgment affirmed.