Jones v. State

387 S.W.2d 408 (1965)

Benny T. JONES, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 37650.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 3, 1965.

Enoch G. Fletcher, Grand Saline, for appellant.

Ralph Prince, Dist. Atty., Longview, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for forgery; the punishment, two years.

At the trial it was shown by the state's testimony that, on the date alleged, the appellant presented to the prosecuting witness, Robert Jackson, an employee of Ballard drugstore in the city of Longview, state's exhibit #1, which was a check…