Long v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is passing as true a forged instrument; the punishment, three years.

Boyd, a resident of Belton, employed itinerant exterminator Miller to rid him of his household worries and gave Miller a check in an appropriate amount for his services, but denied that he had executed the check which constitutes the basis for this prosecution.

Miller, a confessed principal to the instant forgery, testified that his friend, the appellant, was also in Belton on the day in question but had no contact with Boyd, that after he secured Boyd’s genuine check he and the appellant…