Gammill v. State

HAWKINS, Judge. —

Appellant was charged by indictment with having passed a forged instrument to Kathleen Coe. The instrument in question was a check drawn on the First National Bank of Beaumont, Texas, payable to E. M. Wilson, for the sum of $18.00, purporting to have been signed by one J. W. Shaw, and endorsed on the back “E. M. Wilson.” It was specifically charged in the indictment that the forged part of the instrument was the endorsement aforesaid. It was further alleged in the indictment that appellant had been previously convicted of certain felonies less than capital, which if proven,…