Jackson v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for and convicted of forgery. A reversal is sought only upon the proposition that the proof of forgery rests alone upon the comparison of handwriting and is consequently insufficient to support a conviction.

Article 814, C. C. P., is as follows: “It is competent in every case to give evidence of handwriting hy comparison, made hy experts or hy the jury, but proof by comparison only shall not be sufficient to establish the handwriting of a witness who denies his signature under oath.”

Appellant was charged with the forgery of the name of A. E. Schraeder to a…