Stout v. State

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for the unlawful possession of a forged instrument in writing; the punishment, three years.

Trial was before the court upon appellant’s plea of guilty, a jury having been waived under the provisions of Art. 1.13 of the Vernon’s Ann.Code of Criminal Procedure.

At the trial, the appellant, while testifying as a witness, made a judicial confession to the offense charged and testified that on the date alleged he knowingly possessed the forged instrument in writing, being a check introduced in evidence as state’s exhibit #1, for the purpose of passing the same as…