Heard v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Travis. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. By authority of the act of 1876, “to provide for the detection and conviction of all forgers of land-titles,” the grand jury of Travis County, on June 19, 1879, presented against the appellant an indictment containing two counts.
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Appeal from the District Court of Travis. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. By authority of the act of 1876, “to provide for the detection and conviction of all forgers of land-titles,” the grand jury of Travis County, on June 19, 1879, presented against the appellant an indictment containing two counts. By the first count he was charged with having, on September 1, 1876, forged a deed to himself from one John R. Conner, purporting to convey three hundred and thirty-eight acres of land out of the Silvester Williams patented survey of seven hundred and thirty-eight acres, situated in…
1Opinion of the CourtWinkler, J.
The indictment presented against the appellant contains two separate and distinct counts. The *14first count charges the appellant with the forgery of a deed from one John R. Conner to the defendant for three hundred and- thirty-eight acres of land in Collin County, setting out at length the deed alleged to have been forged. The second count in the indictment charges that the defendant, on September 9, 1876, in Collin County, Texas, unlawfully, wilfully, and without lawful authority, and with intent to defraud, did knowingly “utter, publish, use, and pass as true and genuine,” the false and…
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