Willard v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for issuing and circulating counterfeit cigarette stamps; punishment, twenty years in the penitentiary.

In this case venue of the offense is laid in Travis county, Texas. It is substantially alleged in the indictment that one H. F. Stribling, in Travis county, Texas, issued and circulated one hundred thousand counterfeit stamps, * * * in this, to-wit: that the said H. F. Stribling did then and there sell said stamps to Earl E. Bower, etc. The indictment was attacked as ambiguous and indefinite, and also on the ground that the words used, viz: issue, —…