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Worthless Checks in Tennessee

By Baker Associates

The impact that a worthless checks charge can have on your life is enormous. It is important to realize that the facts of every worthless checks case in Tennessee are different. Our Tennessee theft lawyers handle worthless checks charges in the Gatlinburg, Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Knoxville area. According to Tennessee law, A person commits the crime of passing worthless checks if he, knowingly or with fraudulent intent: ? issues or passes a check or similar sight order knowing there are not sufficient funds on deposit to pay it and other outstanding checks in full, or ? stops payment on a check (provided the items or services bought were represented at the time the check was issued). Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-14-121 (2007). This statute permits a person to issue a stop payment order on a check if the goods or services were not as represented at the time the check was written...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).