Brown v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.—This

Appellant is an appeal from a conviction for forgery. The indictment charges that the appellant in the county of McLennan on the 12th day of December, 1907, did with intent to injure and defraud, wilfully and fraudulently make a false instrument in writing purporting to be the act of one H. J. Barnhart, being jn the nature of a check drawn on the First National Bank for fifty dollars, payable to the order of one John Drew. In the second, count he was charged with passing a forged instrument. Both counts were submitted to the jury in the court’s charge and the jury convicted…