Hooper v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Midland, on change of venue from Mitchell. Tried below before Hon. William Kennedy. Appellant was tried on an indictment charging him with uttering or passing a forged instrument. At the trial he was convicted and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary. The opinion sufficiently states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, Presiding Judge.
The indictment in this case charged the appellant with uttering or passing a forged instrument, knowing it to be forged.
He pleaded specially a former acquittal in bar of further prosecution in this cause, in that he had been previously indicted, tried, and acquitted under an indictment charging him with forgery of the same identical instrument which is the subject matter of the prosecution in this case; and in support of his said plea he set up as part thereof the indictment for forgery and the judgment of acquittal at his trial thereon. A demurrer and motion to set…
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