Hickman v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

The indictment charges that appellant, on the 2d day of July, 1902, forged the following instrument:

“Wichita Falls, Texas, July 2, 1892. No. —. The Panhandle National Bank of Wichita Falls pay to E. H. Smith or Bearer Seven-Dollars $7.00. Boney Mclntire.”

The indictment contains neither explanatory averments nor innuendo allegations. Motion to quash was based, first, upon the ground that the instrument itself shows that the offense was barred by the statute of limitations when presented by the grand jury; second, that it was re pugnant in its averments, in that the…