Legal Opinion

Watts v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 4, 1942No. 21880PublishedCited by 7 opinions

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is forgery. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of five years.

It is charged in the indictment that on or about the 22nd day of January, 1940, and anterior to the presentment of this indictment, in the county and state aforesaid, A. F. Luse, Wm. Watts and W. T. Clark, “without lawful authority and intent to defraud, unlawfully, wilfully and fraudulently did make and forge a false instrument in writing purporting to be the act of another, to-wit, the act of one E. A. Brown, and of another to-wit, Mrs. Maggie A. Brown, which…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Webb v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
  2. Gibbons v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1896
  3. Meredith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1914
  4. Roberts v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1929

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Landry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  2. Minix v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  3. King v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1986
  4. Threadgill v. CapraSupreme Court of Colorado · 1967
  5. Landry v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979

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