Williams v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Freestone. Tried below before the Hon. Sam R. Frost. The conviction in this case was for forgery, and the penalty assessed was a term of two years in the penitentiary. Peter C. Stubbs was the first witness for the State. The forged instrument being exhibited to him, he testified that he first saw it at Bounds’s store in Wortham, Freestone county, Texas, when .he went to settle his account.
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Appeal from the District Court of Freestone. Tried below before the Hon. Sam R. Frost. The conviction in this case was for forgery, and the penalty assessed was a term of two years in the penitentiary. Peter C. Stubbs was the first witness for the State. The forged instrument being exhibited to him, he testified that he first saw it at Bounds’s store in Wortham, Freestone county, Texas, when .he went to settle his account. The account presented to him 'called for the amount of the order. Witness called for the order and at once denounced it as spurious. Bounds, however, insisted "upon…
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
This is a conviction for forgery, predicated upon making without authority, with intent to defraud, etc., the following instrument:
Wortham freston Co Texas.
Mr alien bounds please let Aran Williams have 1 par shose 1 par pants and charge the same by this. Aug the 16 1884
p c Stubbs.
It appears that the instrument was introduced in evidence before it was shown that defendant wrote it, though this proof was afterwards made. This was irregular, but it was not reversible error.
Appellant contends that the instrument is of such deformity as can not be made the subject of forgery by proper…
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