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- Title: State v. Johnson
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 15, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by Robert C. Johnson appeals from his conviction by a jury of four felony counts of giving a worthless check. K.S.A. 21-3707. During the month of June, 1982, four checks were issued by Your Aerobics Fitness Center, Inc., a Kansas corporation, a business enterprise principally owned and managed by Johnson. Three of the checks were issued to Kathryn Lauren Kahn and one to Kay Barrett, both being employees of the corporation. When the checks were presented for payment to the drawee bank there were insufficient funds in the corporate account to cover the checks. Each of the checks was in an amount in excess of fifty dollars and all of them were signed by Johnson as president of the corporation. At trial Johnson did not deny that he had issued the checks nor did he deny that he knew at the time there were insufficient funds on deposit for payment of the checks. The defense was that the employees knew at the time they accepted the checks that the corporation was in dire financial straits and that there were insufficient funds on deposit to [233 Kan. 982]