California Court of Appeal

In a defendant's conviction for forgery, trial court's dismissal of 24 felony counts for allegedly falsifying entries into the records of a private business is reversed and remanded, as Penal Code section 471 broadly and unambiguously makes it a crime to forge an entry in "any book of records," and the trial court incorrectly construed the statute as applying only to the forgery of public records.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/06/2012
• Published 09/06/2012

Judges

• Bedsworth

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel