Williams v. State

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Judge.

Defendant was indicted in separate counts for forgery and passing a forged instrument, and as an habitual criminal on each of these charges. He was convicted of passing a forged instrument with punishment fixed at not less than three years nor more than four years in the penitentiary. He was also found guilty of being an habitual criminal with his punishment enhanced on the original conviction to life imprisonment. The judgment of the trial court was that he be imprisoned in the State Penitentiary at hard labor for the remainder of his natural life.

At the outset we note…