Powell v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for forgery of a credit card. The jury assessed the punishment at seven years.

The record reflects that an Eneo credit card issued to the Texas Compressor Corporation was used by an unauthorized person to purchase $200 in merchandise from Bill Johnson’s Eneo service station in Houston. The invoice was signed “B. Burns” and no one by that name was employed by the company or authorized to use its credit cards. The company did not know the card was missing until it was billed for large purchases made with the credit card, which had been…