Murphy v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was charged under the name of 0. E. Williams with forgery. When called upon to plead, he suggested his true name to be Ed Murphy, and from that point the prosecution was carried on in the name of Ed Murphy. The only ground of the motion for new trial (there being no assignment of error), is that the evidence is not sufficient to support the conviction. The fact that the instrument was executed by appellant is placed beyond any question by the eye-witness, and by appellant in his own testimony. The draft which was the basis of the prosecution, was signed Ed…