Jones v. State

DeCARLO, Judge.

This is an appeal by an indigent from a conviction for forgery in the first degree, wherein the appellant, after waiving a jury trial, was tried before a judge and sentenced to three years imprisonment.

The indictment reads, as follows (omitting formal parts):

The Grand Jury of said County charge that . . . PAUL RAYMOND JONES, alias . . . whose name is to the Grand Jury otherwise unknown, with intent to injure or defraud, did falsely make, alter forge or counterfeit an instrument in writing, in words and figures substantially as follows:

“more specifically, the above-described…