Edwards v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

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

The indictment contains four counts. The jury convicted appellant on the fourth count, which reads as follows: “And the grand jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present in and to said court that J. R. Edwards, on or about the 2nd day of April, A. D., 1907, in said county and State, did wilfully, knowingly and fraudulently pass as true to one L. E. Martin, a false and forged instrument in writing which had theretofore been made…