Mixon v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for passing a forged instrument; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was convicted of passing a forged check. He passed to Minton a check payable to Ray Mixon, the name Ray Mixon being endorsed on the back of the check at the time it was passed. The check was signed “J. B. Bailey,” and the testimony was, in effect, that J. B. Bailey was a fictitious person, no such name being on the books of the bank, or in the city directory, or telephone directory of Dallas, or on the books of the tax collector, and the officers failing to find such party after…