Rylee v. State

Broyles, O. J.

1. “If any person shall designedly, by color of any counterfeit letter or writing, made in any other person’s name, or fictitious name, obtain from any person money or other valuable thing, with intent to defraud any person, mercantile house, body corporate, or company of the same, he shall be punished by imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary for not less than two nor longer than seven years.” Penal Code (1910), § 249. In the instant ease the indictment was drawn under the above-quoted code section, and the check set forth therein was a “writing,” within the meaning of the…