Sheffield v. State

DICE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of passing and uttering a forged instrument in writing relating to and affecting title to land, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for ten years.

The prosecution and conviction is under Article 1008 of Title 14, Ch. 2, Vernon’s Ann. P.C., Acts of 1876, Fifteenth Legislature, Page 59 et seq., which provides, in part, as follows:

“Every person who knowingly utters, publishes, passes, or uses, or who in any way aids, assists in or advises the uttering, publishing, passing or using as true and genuine any false, forged, altered, or…