Booth v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of forgery, and given two years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. Appellant made a motion to quash the indictment, which the court overruled. In our opinion, the motion to quash should have been sustained. The indictment contains both a purport and tenor clause. In the purport clause, it is alleged that the instrument purported to he the act of one J. A. McClure, and when wé come to the tenor clause, an instrument is set out which does not contain the name of J. A. McClure signed thereto. It is true the pleader attempts to supply this by…