Fifer v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for the possession of a forged instrument with intent to defraud as denounced by Article 998, Vernon’s Ann. P.C. The trial was on a plea of not guilty before the court; the punishment was assessed at two years.

Appellant contends that the court erred in overruling his motion to quash the indictment, because it contained no allegation that appellant forged the instrument that he was alleged to have possessed.

Article 998, supra, provides:

“If any person shall knowingly have in his possession any instrument of writing, the making of which is by law an…