Legal Opinion

Wesley v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 26, 1912No. 1866PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HARPER, Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of passing a forged instrument and sentenced to two years in the pentientiary, from which judgment he prosecutes an appeal to this court.

The appellant was convicted in this case of passing a forged instrument, and as it is positively proven that R.- T. Sanderson did not sign nor authorized any other person to sign his name to the check, and further proven that appellant is the person who passed the alleged forged check, consequently it was not necessary for the f court to charge on circumstantial evidence, and the court did not err in refusing the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Henderson v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1855
  2. Crayton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1904

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Phillips v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1972
  2. Gandy v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1924

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