Gordon v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is knowingly passing a forged instrument; the punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of two years.

The testimony adduced by the State, briefly stated, shows that on October 21, 1939, appellant passed to Ashley Lawson a forged check in the amount of $10.50, purporting to have been drawn by L. W. Kitchen upon the First National Bank of Post, Texas, and payable to R. E. Webb. L. W. Kitchen testified that the signature to the check was not in his handwriting, and that he had not authorized any person to sign his name thereto. It was…