Collum v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

The indictment charges appellant with forgery. The indictment alleges,—that part which it is necessary here to consider,—as follows: “Which said instrument, before being altered as aforesaid, was substantially in words and figures as follows, to wit: Joaquin, Texas. Pay to Thomas Collum, $1.65. Mr. Carlson, the same having been destroyed by the defendant, and which said instrument was so altered by the said Thomas Collum as aforesaid in the manner following, that is to say, the figures of $1.65 was so altered as to read $11.65, as to make the said instrument falsely…