Ware v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for forgery; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

It was charged in the indictment that appellant without lawful authority and with intent to injure and defraud wilfully and fraudulently signed the name of Perry Scott, a fictitious person, to a check. An employee of a store in San Angelo testified, — and her testimony is in nowise disputed, — that appellant came into said store, told her that his name was Perry Scott; that old man Jim Scott “out here is my father”; signed Perry Scott to a check on a bank in Ballinger in which no person by the name of Perry…