Smith v. State

GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice:

Willie James Smith was indicted, tried and convicted by jury in Hinds County, Mississippi, on a forgery charge and sentenced to ten years in the State Penitentiary.

The facts, as developed from appellant’s confession which was admitted into evidence, are not in dispute and are as follows. On September 19, 1967, Randall Ashley and Sammy Strickland picked lip appellant and asked him if he wanted to cash some blank checks that had been filled out with a check protector and signed “W. C. Peterman.” Appellant obtained a typewriter and the name Billy Ray Moore was…