Case Name: CASTAINE v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1928-04-25
Citations: 7 S.W.2d 551
Docket Number: No. 11751
Parties: CASTAINE v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 7
Pages: 551–551

Head Matter:
CASTAINE v. STATE.
(No. 11751.)
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 25, 1928.
Rehearing Denied June 20, 1928.
Xavier Christ, of Beaumont, for- appellant.
A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
Conviction is for passing a forged instrument; punishment being two years in the penitentiary. Some suggestion is found in appellant's brief that evidence was received which was not properly admissible. No bills of exception are brought forward making complaint to that effect; in fact, no exceptions of any kind are found in the record. The only question which this court can review is whether the evidence is sufficient. Appellant indorsed and passed a check for $3 drawn on a Port Arthur bank which purported to be signed by Exavia Le Blanc. Appellant claimed to have known such a party and to have received the check from him. Other witnesses testified that there were many Le Blancs in Port Arthur,, but none of the name appearing on the check so far as they knew or could ascertain. A number of checks admitted by appellant to have been written and signed by him were produced, and an employee of the bank testified that in his opinion the alleged forged check and the indorsement admittedly placed thereon by appellant were in the same handwriting, and that the admitted checks written by appellant were in the same handwriting, as the forged check and the indorsement thereon. The evidence appears quite sufficient to support the verdict.
The judgment is affirmed.