Pendleton v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is unlawfully passing as true a forged instrument; the punishment, enhanced under the provisions of Article 63, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., life.

At the outset appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction.

State’s witness, James Edwards, a service station operator in Dallas County, testified that on November 6, 1966, appellant purchased a battery, a battery cable and $2.00 worth of gasoline from him; that appellant paid for such merchandise with a payroll account check of the J. R. Miller Trucking Company, signed by a R. L. Richie and…