Wilson v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The conviction is for forgery; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

The instrument was a check drawn on the First National Bank of Wichita Falls in favor of H. S. Lattimore in the sum of five dollars, and purporting to bear the signature of H. B. Wells. Lattimore was requested by the appellant to cash his check for five dollars. Appellant represented himself to be an attorney of Wichita Falls, bearing the name of H. B. Wells. The evidence shows'that all this was false and that Wells was a-fictitious person. Other testimony was…