Forcy, Alias Jones v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of passing a forged instrument, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The charging part of the indictment is as follows: “. . . did then and there unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly and fraudulently pass as true to J. R. Jacobs a false and forged instrument in writing, which had theretofore been made, without lawful authority, and with intent to defraud, and was then of the tenor following:

‘June the 10, 1908.

to Mr. Jacob (meaning Jacobs) and sons

pleas fill this oder (meaning order) for me

17 $ 35 c (meaning seventeen dollars…