HAMILTON v. STATE

No. 38600.

397 S.W.2d 225 (1965)

Leonard HAMILTON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daylee Wiggins, Phillip Bordages, Beaumont, for appellant.

W. C. Lindsey, Dist. Atty., Ken Parker, Asst. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for forgery; the punishment, enhanced under Art. 63, Vernon's Ann.P.C., by reason of two prior convictions for felonies less than capital, life imprisonment.

The indictment, in separate counts, charged that on or about the 21st day of September, 1964, the appellant did forge and pass as true an instrument of the tenor following:

"Use Ink—Void If Altered or Defaced" ...

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