Montemayor v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is passing as true a forged instrument; the punishment, assessed by the court after a verdict of guilty, four years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The State’s evidence reflects that on July 20, 1968, appellant passed a $72.75 check to Jo Ann Hargis, a cashier at Handy Andy Grocery Store No. 26, located on West Avenue in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, and that the signature of Paul Garza on said check was a forgery. Garza testified that a briefcase containing a book of blank checks with his company’s name printed on them and other papers…