Bell v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for forgery with two prior convictions for felonies less than capital alleged for enhancement; the punishment, life.

Rodney Gary Sims, while testifying, identified the appellant as the same person who, in his presence, wrote out and signed the name of Willie Franklin, Jr., to a draft as maker, and delivered it to him on August 18, 1964, in the sum of $40.75, payable to E. S. Levy and Co., and drawn on the Moody National. The witness Sims identified a draft at the trial as the same draft passed to him by the appellant, and for which he sold and…