In People v. Briggins, 50 N.Y.2d 302 (1980) the evidence established that the defendant used an assumed name to obtain a driver's license, open a checking account so that he may keep his supplemental earnings secret from his wife, and made purchases with checks drawn on the account. When the use of the assumed name was discovered the defendant was prosecuted for possession of a forged instrument, a crime which requires proof of fraudulent intent. The Court reviewed the evidence to find that no fraudulent intent was established because "whatever the benefit or convenience he believed its use afforded him, there is no showing that he employed it as an instrument with which to unfairly impose on others."