APPLE v. STATE

No. 38394.

392 S.W.2d 133 (1965)

Vernon Eugene APPLE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 26, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex Emerson (on appeal only), Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, Charles E. Bonney and Joe Maida, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is forgery by alteration; the punishment, enhanced by two prior convictions for felonies less than capital, life.

The indictment alleged and the evidence, including the confession of the appellant, shows that appellant altered an American Express Company money order for the sum of "I Dols 70 Cts" by inserting the numeral 7 so as to make the instrument falsely appear as being in the sum of "$71 Dols 70 Cts."

The money order...

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