Mason v. State

Ben H. Mason, plaintiff in error, by a verdict of a jury rendered November 19, 1920, was fonnd guilty of passing bogus instruments, as charged in the information, and his punishment was fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a period of one year. From the judgment rendered on this verdict he appeals.

A preliminary complaint in this case was filed October 11, 1919, in the county court of Carter county, sitting as an examining magistrate, in which the charging part of such complaint was as follows:

“He, the said Ben H. Mason, did then and there willfully, unlawfully, fraudulently and…