Case ID: tex-crim_87/html/0193-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Roy Churchill v. The State.
    No. 5767.
    Decided April 7, 1920.
    Forgery—Passing Forged Instruments.
    Where, the indictment alleged forgery in one count and in another passing a forged instrument and the State dismissed the first count and elected to try upon the second count, there was no reversible error, even if the first Count was subject to demurrer.
    
      Appeal from the District Court of Brown. Tried below before the Honorable J. O. Woodward.
    Appeal from a conviction of passing a forged instrument; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
    The opinion states the case.
    No brief on file for appellant.
    
      Alvin M. Owsley, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

The indictment against appellant contains two counts, one for forgery and the other for passing a forged instrument. Motion was made to quash-the first count charging forgery. The State dismissed as to this count and elected to try upon the count charging passing a forged instrument, and upon this conviction was had. This presents no reversible error, even if it be conceded that the count which charges forgery was subject to demur-. rer. This opinion does not pass upon that question as it was not in the case as tried by the jury. This is the only question presented for revision, and the judgment will be affirmed.

Affirmed.