Bedford v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

—Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Harris county, and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

The conviction was for forgery. In the charging part of the indictment the instrument alleged to have been forged is called a deed. It is set out in the indictment in haec verba, and shows to be a deed of trust. A motion to quash was addressed to this alleged contradictory recital of the indictment. It was properly overruled. That a written conveyance of land conveys the interest of the grantor for the purpose of securing a debt, would not…