Minix v. State

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of forgery. The jury found him to be an habitual criminal, and the trial court assessed punishment at life. Appellant raised three grounds of error in his original brief, but we find ground of error number one to be dispositive.

The first contention by appellant is that the trial court erred by failing to grant a motion to quash the indictment which alleged in pertinent part:

“that Alton Minix ... did then and there knowingly, with intent to defraud and harm, forge, by possession with intent to utter the same, a writing as follows:”

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