Jones v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for forgery with the intent to defraud and harm another; the punishment enhanced under the provisions of V.T.C.A., Penal Code Section 12.42(a) is imprisonment for four years. We are presented with interesting and important questions concerning the forgery section of the New Penal Code.

The appellant asserts that V.T.C.A., Penal Code Section 32.21 is unconstitutional because it does not require that a person charged with passing a forged instrument have knowledge that it was forged. The appellant argues that the facts in this case…