SHEFFIELD v. STATE

No. 28776.

307 S.W.2d 100 (1957)

B. R. SHEFFIELD, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 19, 1957.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied November 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Looney, Clark & Moorhead, Everett L. Looney, R. Dean Moorhead, and Mary Joe Carroll, Austin, Benson & Howard, W. D. Benson, Jr. and Robert Howard, Lubbock, for appellant.

Les Proctor, Dist. Atty., Bob Smith, Asst. Dist. Atty., Austin, Travis Shelton, Dist. Atty., Myron Garner, Asst. Dist. Atty., Lubbock, Bill Allcorn, Dist. Atty., Brownwood, Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., of Texas, David S. McAngus, Asst. Dist. Atty., Austin, Robert O. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted of passing and uttering a forged instrument in writing relating to and affecting title to land, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for ten years.

The prosecution and conviction is under Article 1008 of Title 14, Ch. 2, Vernon's Ann.P.C., Acts of 1876, Fifteenth Legislature, Page 59 et seq., which provides, in part, as follows:

"Every person who knowingly utters, publishes, passes...

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