Grooms v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Travis, on a change of venue from Atascosa. Tried below before Hon. R. E. Brooks. Appeal from a conviction for forgery; penalty, six years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Travis, on a change of venue from Atascosa. Tried below before Hon. R. E. Brooks. Appeal from a conviction for forgery; penalty, six years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment charged appellant with the forgery of a deed of the tenor following: “State of Texas, Bexar County.—Know all men by these presents, that I, Drury Gardner, for the sum of ($100) cash in hand paid, have sold unto J. W. Wilson that certain tract of land known as abstract 852, survey 1382, located by certificate 5053, Atascosa County, Texas, of 320 acres. To have and to hold the…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of forgery, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of six years, and he appeals.
Appellant made a motion in arrest of judgment, on the ground “that said indictment is not sufficient to support the conviction, in that it is alleged therein that the forgery charged was committed in Atascosa Count)r, Texas, but sets out and quotes the alleged forged deed, which purports on its face to be executed in Bexar County; and does not allege any act other than said allegation of forgery constituting the offense to have been…
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