Cyphers v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

—The appellant was indicted and convicted of passing a forged instrument and his penalty fixed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The evidence for the State shows that about July, 1908, the appel■lant applied to Hr. J. W. Guckian to buy some buggy shafts and that after some negotiations he sold him the shafts at the price of $2.50. The appellant, not being able to pay for them, represented that his name was Joe McCurdy and offered to give a note in payment for the shafts. Mr. Guckian agreed to that, wrote out the note and the appellant signed it by the name of Joe…