Brown v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

By indictment filed in the District Court of Orange County on the 6th day of May, 1910, appellant was charged with unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly and fraudulently passing as true a false and forged instrument in writing of the tenor following:

“Orange, Texas, Feb. 1910.

No. $10.00

The First Orange Bank of Orange, Texas,

Pay tin — to Hebert Brown or bearer — /100 Dollars.

The Cameron Live Stock Co., Andrew Lemaire.”

Thereafter on May 17 he was found guilty as charged in the indictment and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

As the…