Batte v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of forgery, his punishment being assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

His contention is: first, that the evidence is not sufficient, in that he was convicted upon the testimony of L. H. Tyler, whom he alleges in his motion for new trial, did not qualify as an expert on handwriting. Tyler testified that the same person who wrote the name of appellant in blank on the check alleged to be forged was the same person who wrote the name of the payor A. A. Koup, that is, the handwriting is by the same person. There was no…