Pylant v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

GRAVES, Judge.

In his motion for a rehearing, appellant challenges the sufficiency of the indictment which reads in part as follows:

“* * * that Otha Pylant * * * without lawful authority and with intent to injure and defraud, did wilfully and fraudulently alter an instrument in writing, then already in existence, which had been made by W. M. Malone, and which said instrument before being altered as aforesaid, was to the tenor following:

“ ‘Tulia, Texas, 2/6 1947 NO.

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK..Pay to the. order of Nineteen For 00 Otha Pylant No/100 $19 Dollars (Signed) W. M.…