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2021 Colorado Code
Title 18 - Criminal Code
Article 5 - Offenses Involving Fraud
Part 1 - Forgery, Simulation, Impersonation, and Related Offenses
§ 18-5-112. Obtaining Signature by Deception
Universal Citation: CO Code § 18-5-112 (2021)
- A person commits obtaining signature by deception if, by deception and with intent to defraud or to acquire a benefit for himself or another, he causes another to sign or execute a written instrument.
- As used in this section, “by deception” means by knowingly:
- Creating or confirming another's impression which is false and which the deceiver does not believe to be true; or
- Failing to correct a false impression held by another which the deceiver previously has created or confirmed; or
- Preventing another from acquiring information pertinent to any matter material to a proper understanding of any transaction in which the signature of such person is procured.
- Obtaining signatures by deception is a class 2 misdemeanor.
History. Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 436, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 40-5-112 .
ANNOTATION
Falsely inducing another to indorse check is within section. One who by false representations induces another to indorse a check for the payment of money, which the indorser thereafter is compelled to pay to a holder for value, is guilty of obtaining a thing of value by false pretenses. Miller v. People, 72 Colo. 375 , 211 P. 380 (1922) (decided under former R.S. 08, § 1849).
Applied in People v. Vesely, 41 Colo. App. 325, 587 P.2d 802 (1978).
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