“The note in Archbold (1962) on Maytum-White, reads:- “A post-dated cheque is a representation that the drawer is a customer of the bank concerned and, as only customers of a bank have authority to draw cheques, the drawer of a post-dated cheque represents that he has power and authority to draw on the bank concerned, but not for any particular amount. Where, therefore, the appellant purchased theatre tickets and paid by a cheque which was post-dated two days and was drawn on a bank where he had no account, and the cheque was dishonoured, it was held by the Court of Criminal Appeal that the appellant was rightly convicted of obtaining the tickets by falsely pretending that he then had full power and authority to draw a cheque upon the bank: R. v. Maytum White (1958) 42 Cr. Asp. R. 165.”
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