Carloss v. State

Appellant was convicted of forgery, his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The indictment contained three counts, two for forgery and one for passing the forged instrument. He had been previously tried and acquitted for passing the forged instrument. He interposed a plea of jeopardy, which was sustained by the court as to the count in the instant indictment, and that passed out of the case, and appellant was tried for forgery.

The State's case on the facts is that the instrument declared upon came through the mail in a letter supposed to have been written by…