OPINION
DICE, Commissioner.
The prior opinion affirming the judgment of conviction and the mandate issued thereon are withdrawn.
Appellant was convicted, upon his plea of guilty and waiver of a trial by jury, of the offense of passing as true a forged instrument and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of seven years.
The punishment of seven years is not authorized by Art. 996, Vernon's Ann.P.C., which...
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