Bird v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Gregg County, of the offense of forgery, and his punishment fixed at two and one-half years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was charged with forging the name of W. N. Hiett to a check. The record discloses that he had worked for Mr. Hiett, and that on the 15th of November, 1919, he presented a check, purporting to be signed by Mr. Hiett, to a bank in Longview. The check was payable to C. R. Rockwell, and when appellant was asked to write his name on the back of the instrument, he wrote C. R. Rockwell. Soon after the cashing of…