Lyles v. State

BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Retired Circuit Judge.

The original deliverance is withdrawn, and this opinion is substituted therefor.

Appellant-defendant, an indigent appeals from a judgment pursuant to an indictment for forgery and a jury’s verdict convicting him therefor. The trial court imposed a sentence of ten years in the penitentiary. The indictment alleges that defendant forged or uttered the check with intent to defraud.

The State offered evidence that defendant committed the offense of forgery with intent to defraud as charged in the indictment. The alleged forged check was in the sum of $30.00,…