Richards v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

There is no doubt in our minds as to the sufficiency of the indictment. It pertinently and positively alleged the forgery of the name of Clyde R. Vest on the back of a genuine check to make it appear as an endorsement thereon. Omitting the formal parts the indictment charges that appellant and A. A. Crabb did—

“* * * without lawful authority and with intent to injure and defraud, wilfully and fraudulently make a false instrument in writing, purporting to be the act of another, to-wit, the act of Clyde R. Vest, by then and there endorsing the name Clyde R.…