Graham v. State

OPINION

ELLIS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction for the offense of forgery. The indictment alleged that appellant, Carnegia Rastine Graham, forged a facsimile of a one dollar bill by both making and possessing the same. Appellant pled not guilty and the court, after receiving a stipulation of evidence, found him guilty. Appellant’s punishment was assessed at five years in the Texas Department of Corrections and a $300 fine. We affirm.

In his stipulation of evidence, appellant confessed that he photostated one side of a dollar bill, the legal currency of the United States…