Owen v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, forgery of land title; penalty, five years in the penitentiary.

W. S. Potter, residing in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, was the owner of a large tract of land in Houston County, Texas. He died May 3, 1928. On July 12, 1928, a deed purporting to be signed by W. S. Potter, dated April 25, 1924, and purporting to have been acknowledged before W. O. McElroy, Notary Public, on the same date, was filed for record by the County Clerk of Houston County, Texas. This conveyed to appellant, E. F. Owen, a tract of land hereinafter described.

It was the theory of the State that J. H.…