Gumpert v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
In this case the defendant pleaded guilty to the offense charged in the indictment, and in his motion for new trial and in arrest of judgment set up the insufficiency of the indictment, and also some excep - tions to the sufficiency of the evidence, but in the absence of a statement of facts the latter is not considered in the opinion of the court. Judge F. L. Hawkins presided at defendant’s trial and therefore did not participate in the decision of this appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
Conviction is for passing a forged instrument and punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.
The instrument declared on was set out in the indictment thus: “Italy, Texas, July 31, 1920. No.
“The First National Bank 88-665 Pay to Bearer “Roy Miller $15.85 fifteen and 85/100 Dollars
“ S. L. Morgan”
“endorsed on the back thereof “Roy Miller”
It was charged that the appellant
“did wilfully, knowingly and fraudulently pass as true to one Jodie Brooks a false and forged instrument in writing which had thereto fore been made without lawful…
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