UTTERING OF CHEQUE.
Accused Man Remanded for Sentencee. Per Press Association. NAPIER, This Day. In summing-up in the case in which Edward Mountford Tunnecliffe, aged forty, who is charged wit.h uttering a cheque for £IOOO. and with obtaining £IOOO by falsely representing that a cheque for that amount was a good and valid order. Mr Justice Blair said that it was a first-class forgery. Prisoner, however, was not charged with forgery. Had he been, he would have told the jury that if there had been sufficient evidence of issuing the cheque that it would have been sufficient to convict him of forgery. After an absence of sixty minutes, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of uttering the cheque. The accused was remanded for sentnce. (The case for the defence appears on Page 11.)
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20626, 29 May 1935, Page 7
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134UTTERING OF CHEQUE. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20626, 29 May 1935, Page 7
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