Case ID: sw2d_156/html/0525-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COURSON v. STATE.
    No. 21789.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Dec. 10, 1941.
    Ramey A. Smith, of Sulphur Springs, for ■appellant.
    Spurgeon E. Bell, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   DAVIDSON, Judge.

Passing a forged instrument is the offense; the punishment, two years in the state penitentiary.

No bills of exception accompany the record. The only question presented is the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

The State’s testimony shows that the ap-pellant passed as true, to James Brittain, ■a forged check in the sum of thirteen dollars, in part payment of merchandise, receiving the balance in cash. When questioned relative the check, appellant claimed that it had been given him by the alleged maker, in payment for a cow. The day following the transaction, appellant fled from this state to the state of California, where he was apprehended and brought back for trial.

Appellant did not testify as a witness in his own behalf, nor did he present any affirmative defense.

The facts are sufficient to support the conviction.

The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

PER CURIAM.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.