Morris v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Van Zandt. Tried below before the Hon. M. H. Bonner. Morris, the appellant, was one of the sureties of William Sharp, who was indicted for knowingly passing a forged writ of error bond on the distinct clerk of Van Zandt County. The opinion fully discloses the case. The next case will be found to furnish another illustration of the rules laid down in this one.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
This is one of two cases numbered, on our docket, respectively, 34 and 35, appealed by the same parties from judgments final upon forfeited recognizances. According to an agreement of parties, which we find on file in this case, it appears, and is so understood, that the district clerk, in preparing the transcripts, has, from inadvertence, interchanged the two indictments, copying in this case *555the indictment which properly belongs to the record in case No. 35, and vice versa.
The proper indictment, then, in this case is the one drawn under article 2105 of Paschal’s Digest, which reads thus :…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- State v. HutchinsonTexas Supreme Court · 1861
- Thompson v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1868
- Lowrie v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1875