Landers v. State

OPINION

BILL J. CORNELIUS, Commissioner.

Conviction was for passing a forged instrument. The punishment, assessed by the court at appellant’s election, was five years confinement.

The indictment charged that appellant had passed to Don Neece a forged check dated March 23, 1972, drawn on the Carpet Mart through the Lakewood Bank, payable to appellant in the sum of $92.46, numbered 1114 and purportedly signed by Dan E. Butler.

The State proved by Martin Morachnick, President of the Carpet Mart, that on the 18th or 19th of March 1972 his business was burglarized and a “book of checks” on the…