Goolsby v. State

This appellant, defendant in the court below, was indicted, tried, and convicted for the violation of an act of the Legislature known as the fraudulent check law. This act was approved November 1, 1921. Acts Sp. Sess. 1921, p. 47. Several questions are presented for the consideration of this court, but the principal — in fact, controlling — question is the validity of the act under which this prosecution is based; the insistence being made that this act of the Legislature is unconstitutional, and that a prosecution under such act is illegal and void.

Upon a study of this question the writer…