Beer v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Charles F. Clint. Appeal from a conviction of forgery; penalty, three years imprisonment In the penitentiary. No statement necessary.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of forgery, and his punishment assessed at three years in the penitentiary. He was charged with forging a check in his own favor for $35, directed to the National Exchange Bank, Dallas, Texas, signing the naipe of F. Hesselson. On the trial the State offered the check in evidence, and objection was urged because it had lithographed upon it a Hnited States internal revenue two-cent stamp. The contention is that this constituted a variance, inasmuch as the indictment set our or described the instrument, omitting the stamp. To sustain this…
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