Sheffield v. State

McKAY, Justice.

This is an appeal from appellant’s conviction for forgery. Punishment was enhanced by two prior convictions to life imprisonment.

The indictment charged that appellant with intent to defraud and harm, did forge a check, which purported to be the act of another who did not authorize the act, by possessing it with intent to utter it and while knowing it was forged.

Appellant brings one ground of error in which he maintains that the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction because the State did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant had an intent to defraud.

The…