PETERSON v. STATE

No. 12-81-0122-CR.

645 S.W.2d 852 (1982)

Howard Lee PETERSON, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Tyler.

December 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman E. Lanford, Houston, for appellant.

John B. Holmes, Jr., Dist. Atty., Houston, for appellee.


McKAY, Justice.

Appellant was convicted in two counts of forgery, and punishment fixed at ten years confinement; upon proof of a prior final conviction, punishment was set at twenty years confinement.

The first complaint of appellant is that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to "set aside indictment as to the modifying clause `which purported to be the act of another.'" In his second ground appellant says the court erred in failing to grant his...

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