Ex Parte Davis
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
W.C. DAVIS, Judge.
This is an application for habeas corpus relief from a final felony conviction for the offense of forgery, filed pursuant to Art. 11.07, V.A.C.C.P. Petitioner maintains that the information under which he was convicted was fundamentally defective for failure to describe the allegedly forged instrument.
The information upon which petitioner’s conviction was based alleged in pertinent part that the defendant:
“... on or about July 13, 1981, did then and there unlawfully and with intent to defraud and harm, forge the writing duplicated below, which purported to be the act…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Harris v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1947
- George v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
- Samuel v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
3Cited by4 opinions
- Martinez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1987
- Martinez v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1985
- State v. EdmondCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996
- State v. EdmondCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996