Wallace v. State

The jury allotted appellant two years in the penitentiary for forgery.

The indictment contains two counts, one for forgery, and the other for passing the alleged forged instrument.

Motion to quash on the ground that the chech or draft was described as the act of “J. Bickerell,” whereas the name of “J. W. Bicknell” is signed to the instrument, and that there is a variance between the allegation and the facts, was overruled. The indictment alleges the name of “Bi.ckerell,” and not “Bicknell.” If there was developed on the trial that “Bicknell,” and not “Bickerell,” was the forged name, it is not…