Baranosky v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for passing, as true, a forged instrument; the punishment, five years.

The second count of the indictment, which was submitted to the jury, charged that on or about the 2nd day of June, 1965, the appellant did pass as true a certain forged instrument, in writing, to one Bart Tabor. The instrument set out in the indictment was, according to its tenor, a check dated May 31, 1965, at Austin, Texas, drawn on the account of Hinton Motors through The Austin National Bank in the sum of $2,000, payable to D. M. Ginsburg and purportedly signed by S. E. Hinton.

It was…