Cochran v. State

The offense is forgery; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

The count of the indictment under which appellant was convicted charges that appellant — "did then and there unlawfully and without lawful authority, and with intent to injure and defraud, make a false instrument in writing, which said false instrument in writing so made was then and there of the tenor following:

M. C. Boyd County Treasurer Childress, Texas, 6-18, 1924. Pay to J. H. Dilliard or order ..... $ 44.00 Forty four no/100 ......... Dollars. Farmers Mechanics State Bank Per M. C. Boyd 88-254-11…