Gibson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The State’s testimony shows that the defendant, in company with two other negroes, entered the prosecutor’s store, and that the defendant offered to buy a pair of pants from prosecutor and gave him a check for $14.35 in payment thereof; that this check was payable to Sam Jackson on the American Exchange National Bank of Dallas, and was signed Al Poe; that defendant said he was Sam Jackson and had been working for Poe, and when asked by prosecutor what his boss did, answered…
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The State’s testimony shows that the defendant, in company with two other negroes, entered the prosecutor’s store, and that the defendant offered to buy a pair of pants from prosecutor and gave him a check for $14.35 in payment thereof; that this check was payable to Sam Jackson on the American Exchange National Bank of Dallas, and was signed Al Poe; that defendant said he was Sam Jackson and had been working for Poe, and when asked by prosecutor what his boss did, answered he did not know, but that the check was all right; that prosecutor picked up the phone to call up the man Poe; that the…
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
—Appellant was convicted of forgery and has appealed to this court, assigning several grounds in his motion for new trial. The term of court at which appellant was tried convened on the 1st day of January and adjourned on March 30, lasting more than eight weeks. He was tried on February 14, and his motion for new trial was overruled on March 16, and sentence passed on him on that day. There is no order in the record extending the time in which to file hill of exceptions, and the only bill in the record was not approved nor filed within thirty days from the date of overruling the…
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