Meador v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

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

M. E. Shelly had money in a bank. She could neither read nor write, and J. B. was authorized to sign checks upon said bank in M. E.’s name. It was the State’s theory in this case that appellant induced M. E. to have J. B. sign for her certain papers purporting to pertain to the getting of insurance, one of which papers was in reality a check upon said bank, the amount, payee, etc., in which were then blank, but which check, after being so signed, was later filled in by appellant by writing his own name as payee…