Sanchez v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge. —

The offense is forgery; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

The instrument declared to have been forged is set out in the indictment, as follows:

“Give Lee 3.g£ I will pay you

“J. L. Horne.”

The indictment embraces no explanatory averments. In Cagle v. State, 44 S. W., 1097, this court used the following language:

“It may be considered a safe test, if the instrument is such on its face that it imports an obligation in regard to money or property, and will afford the basis of a civil action without resorting to extrinsic testimony, then a charge of…