Reed v. State

LATTIMORE, JUDGE.

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

No testimony was offered by appellant. For the state it was shown that on May 18, 1932, appellant rented a typewriter and check protector for one day, which was delivered at his room at a hotel in Amarillo. Later that day an officer went to said room and found appellant asleep on a bed. In the room witness found a check, — the basis for this prosecution, — being a check for $15.00, dated May 15, 1932, drawn on The First National Bank of Tulsa, Okl., payable to J. D. Beach, signed by “Noble & *453Noble, Drilling…