Ham v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Travis. Tried below before the Hon. E. B. Turner. On November 2, 1877, an indictment by the grand jury of Travis County, Texas, was presented to, and filed in, the District Court of said county, against J. R. Ham, alias J. W. Hall.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
So outrageous had become the wrongs inflicted upon our citizens by means of forged land titles that the framers of our last Constitution incorporated into that intvument the 6th section of article 13, which provides that “ the Legislature shall pass stringent laws for the detection and conviction of all forgers of land titles, and make such appropriations of money for that purpose as may be necessary.”
In obedience to this requirement, the Fifteenth Legislature, the first which assembled under the new Constitution, on July 28, 1876, passed an act entitled “An act to provide for the detection…
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