Nogueira v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for altering, mutilating, etc., a public record; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

Article 1002, P. C., forbids that any person, without authority of law, shall wilfully and maliciously “change, alter, mutilate, destroy, deface, or injure” any book, paper, record or *450any other document, required or permitted by law to be kept by any officer within this state. The indictment in this case charged that appellant, on the 2d day of January, 1930, “did then and there without authority of law wilfully and maliciously change, alter, mutilate, destroy, deface and…