Williams v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for forgery; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

When our opinion herein was handed down there was no brief on file, and our attention was not called to certain matters which seem to make it necessary to reverse this case. The original opinion is withdrawn and the following is substituted.

Appellant is an ignorant colored woman, who proved an unusually good reputation by white witnesses. Apparently her sweetheart, Sam Royal, was in jail following an examining trial in which he had been- bound over to await action of a grand jury. Appellant went to jail to see…