Anderson v. State

OPINION

RUSSELL, Judge.

The defendant-appellant, Bobby R. Anderson, appeals his conviction under both counts of a two-count indictment charging him with (1) forgery and (2) uttering a forged instrument. The jury set punishment at three years in each case, recommending that they be ordered to be served concurrently; but the trial judge, after a hearing in which Anderson’s many past crimes were made to appear, required consecutive service of the two three year sentences.

The predominant question raised upon this appeal is whether or not both of these convictions can stand. The State’s proof was…