Slatter v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The State’s testimony showed that the defendant called upon the chief State’s witness at the latter’s bank to borrow some money; that the witness made out a note and handed it to the defendant to get sureties thereon; that defendant returned in a few days presenting. said note signed by two parties as sureties; that prosecuting witness did not like the signature, and defendant said that one of the sureties, naming him, was sitting on his horse at the time he signed the note;…
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The State’s testimony showed that the defendant called upon the chief State’s witness at the latter’s bank to borrow some money; that the witness made out a note and handed it to the defendant to get sureties thereon; that defendant returned in a few days presenting. said note signed by two parties as sureties; that prosecuting witness did not like the signature, and defendant said that one of the sureties, naming him, was sitting on his horse at the time he signed the note; that prosecutor told defendant that he could not take the note in the condition it was in, when defendant asked him to…
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
—Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Rains County for attempting to pass a forged instrument; upon a trial he was adjudged guilty, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary, from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal.
1. The Assistant Attorney-General has filed a motion to strike out the statement of facts, which is copied in the record. Sections 5 and 6 of chapter 39 of the Act of the Thirty-first Legislature provide that in felony cases the statement of facts shall be prepared in duplicate, and that the original statement of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Blain v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1895
- Mundine v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1906
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