Daud v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hill. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Hall. This appeal is from a conviction for uttering or passing a forged instrument, the punishment assessed being a term of two years in the penitentiary. Omitting formal allegations, the indictment is as follows: “That oneD.
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Appeal from the District Court of Hill. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Hall. This appeal is from a conviction for uttering or passing a forged instrument, the punishment assessed being a term of two years in the penitentiary. Omitting formal allegations, the indictment is as follows: “That oneD. H. Daud, alias Dan Jones, in the county of Hill, and State aforesaid, on the 22nd day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, with force and arms, did unlawfully, knowingly, and fraudulently pass as true to J. P. Maupin, a forged instrument in writing, to the tenor…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
The appellant in this case was convicted for the offense of passing as true a forged instrument in writing, with intent to defraud. The appellant made a motion to the court below to quash the indictment, on the ground that same sets out an instrument of no legal force or effect- whatever, and attempts to make said instrument effective by averments of extrinsic facts in no way suggested by said instrument, and without charging this defendant with knowledge of such facts, and because said instrument, as set out in the indictment, does not, by its terms, figures, and marks,…
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