Westbrook v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Haskell. Tried below before the Hon. J. V. Cockrell. The opinion in this case sets out the instrument upon which the appellant was convicted of forgery and awarded a term of two years in the penitentiary as punishment. The disposition of the case does not call for a statement of the proof.
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction upon an indictment, the charging part of which is that defendant “did, then and there, without lawful authority, and with intent to injure and defraud, willfully and fraudulently make a false instrument in writing, purporting to be the act of another, to wit, the act of C. J. Chapman; which said false instrument is to the tenor following: ‘ Sept. 20, 1886. Mr. E. A. Bledsoe. Dear Sir: Please sell Mr. Westbrook twenty or twenty-five dollars worth of goods, and I will be down in 8 or 10 days his and settle for them. C. J. +…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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