Young v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for passing as true a forged instrument; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was separately tried under an indictment in which he and three other codefendants were jointly charged with acting together in the commission of the offense.

The state’s evidence shows that on March 3, 1955, a purported check of the South Texas Cotton Oil Company, dated February 26, 1955, payable to “Walter E. Stanton,” in the amount of $44.87, and signed “J. C. Davison,” as cashier, and “G. L. Wanderlich,” as manager, was passed by the appellant to the cashier of a…