Sims v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The indictment was drawn under Art. 1123 P.C. which makes it unlawful for any person, with intent to defraud, to make or cause to be made any false entry in any book kept as a book of accounts, or to alter or cause to be altered any item of an account kept or entered in such book.

The statute provides as punishment a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1000 or confinement in the penitentiary for not less than 2 years nor more than 5 years.

The jury found appellant guilty as charged and assessed his punishment at two years in the penitentiary.

The indictment alleged that the…