Jones v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is making a false entry in a book of a state bank; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Omitting the formal parts, the indictment reads as follows:

“W. C. Jones was then and there the duly elected, qualified and acting cashier and agent of a certain state bank to-wit: First State Bank of Ponta, Texas, which had theretofore been duly incorporated, created, and organized under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Texas, and hereinafter referred to as ‘said bank’, and which said bank was then and there carrying on and conducting a banking…