Scott v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bexar. Tried below before Hon. I. L. Martin, Judge of the Thirty-eighth Judicial District, on exchange with Hon. Robert B. Green. Appeal from a conviction for forgery; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The indictment is set out in the opinion. A motion to quash the indictment was overruled in the trial court.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of forgery, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years; hence this appeal.
The charging part of the indictment is as follows:
That James Scott, “without lawful authority, and with intent to injure and defraud, did willfully and fraudulently make a false instrument in writing, purporting to be the act of another, to wit, the act of J. H. Douglas, train master, which said false instrument is to the tenor following:
“ ‘3 M 4 A
“ ‘Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co.
“ ‘San Antonio 3/7/1898
“ ‘Mrs. M.…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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