YOUNG v. STATE

No. 28041.

288 S.W.2d 116 (1956)

Calvin YOUNG, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 15, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy A. Scott, Walter E. Chastain, Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for passing as true a forged instrument; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was separately tried under an indictment in which he and three other co-defendants were jointly charged with acting together in the commission of the offense.

The state's evidence shows that on March 3, 1955, a purported check of the South Texas Cotton Oil Company, dated February 26, 1955, payable to "Walter E. Stanton...

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