Vaughn v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is forgery; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

The instrument was a check drawn at Santa Anna, Texas, in favor of the Santa Anna Mercantile Company, for $39.50, purporting to bear the signature of A. A. Gordon.

Appellant entered a plea of guilty. He testified, admitting that he passed the check and that the purported signature was that of a fictitious person. He endeavored to explain his conduct with the statement that he did not intend to defraud; that he did not know that the signing of a fictitious name was…