HARRIS v. STATE

No. 31319.

333 S.W.2d 142 (1960)

Norma Jean HARRIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 9, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Gabriel Nahas, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist Atty., Howell E. Stone, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

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

Mary Bailey, an employee of Weingarten's store in Houston, testified that appellant came to her booth on December 20, 1957, presented a courtesy card numbered E.E. 1098 bearing a "Florence W. Cox" signature and also a $50 check bearing a "Florence W. Cox" signature, with the address 510 Bremond written under the name, and that she compared the signatures...

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