Hughes v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Delta. Tried below before the Honorable R. L. Porter. Appeal from a conviction of forgery; penalty,' two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RAMSEY, Judge.
On the 6th day of January of this year an indictment was returned into the District Court of Delta County charging appellant with forgery on a certain instrument in writing to the following effect:
“Pecan Gap, Texas, 8/30, 1909, Ho. -The Weldon Bank (unincorporated) Pay to W. H. Hughes or bearer, $31.35, Twenty One Dollars - 35/100 Dollars. L. H. Myers,” and also in another count with passing as true said forged. instrument. The conviction was under the first count. The evidence shows that about the 30th day of August, 1909, appellant presented to one H. W. Miller a check…
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