Jones v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for forgery; the punishment, two years.

At the trial it was shown by the state’s testimony that, on the date alleged, the appellant presented to the prosecuting witness, Robert Jackson, an employee of Ballard drugstore in the city of Longview, state’s exhibit #1, which was a check dated May 27, 1963, at Kilgore, Texas, drawn on the Citizens State Bank & Trust Co., in the sum of $34, payable to Benny T. Jones and signed by J. E. Kraft. After appellant produced his driver’s license and endorsed his name, address, and license number on the back of the check,…