Section 1-401 - Proof of intent - Fraud, theft, and related crimes.
§ 1-401. Proof of intent - Fraud, theft, and related crimes.
In a trial for counterfeiting, issuing, disposing of, passing, altering, stealing, embezzling, or destroying any kind of instrument, or theft by the obtaining of property by false pretenses, it is sufficient to prove that the defendant did the act charged with an intent to defraud without proving an intent by the defendant to defraud a particular person.
[An. Code 1957, art. 27, § 612; 2002, ch. 26, § 2; ch. 213, § 6.]