Stevenson v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of forgery and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years.

Appellant complains of the misconduct of the jury in discussing his failure to testify and in other particulars which will be more fully-set out later herein. This case presents as plainly as it is possible to do so how ineffectual it is for the trial judge, in many instances, to withdraw from the consideration of the jury harmful evidence which has been admitted before them. The first count in the indictment charges appellant with the forgery of a check…