Case Name: JOHNSON v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1920-10-13
Citations: 224 S.W. 1103
Docket Number: No. 5848
Parties: JOHNSON v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 224
Pages: 1103–1104

Head Matter:
JOHNSON v. STATE.
(No. 5848.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Oct. 13, 1920.
Rehearing Denied Nov. 10, 1920.)
1. Criminal law 1091 (4)— Bill complaining of exclusion of answer to question too indefinite for review.
A bill of exceptions in a forgery case, complaining that court erred in sustaining an objection to a question as to whether a certain person was honest, held too indefinite for revision, not stating what the witness would have answered.
On Motion for Rehearing.
2. Criminal law <§=^1056(2) — Instructions, not excepted to, not reviewable except in case of fundamental error.
Under Code Cr. Proc. 1911, art. 735, an error of the court in charging the jury, not excepted to, will not be considered, unless it is of a fundamental nature, and goes to the basis of the case adversely to what the law is or ought to be.
3. Criminal law <®=^>37l(5) — Extraneous crimes competent to show intent.
In a prosecution for unlawfully attempting to pass a forged instrument, it was competent for the state to prove that defendant attempted to pass a forged instrument on other persons, as tending to show the intent, where an innocent purpose was claimed, or there was doubt as to the innocence of the act about which the complaint is made.
4. Criminal law ©=31(156(1) — Error in instruction not so fundamental as to require reversal, in absence of exception.
In a prosecution for attempting to pass a forged instrument, any error of the court in charging the jury'that the testimony of a witness upon whom defendant also attempted to pass the forged instrument was admitted before them only for what they might consider it to be worth upon the issue of the fraudulent intent of defendant, if erroneous by reason of being upon the weight of the evidence, was not so fundamental as to require the court to reverse, in the absence of an exception.
Appeal from District Court, Jones County; W. R. Chapman, Judge.
A. J. Johnson was convicted of unlawfully attempting to pass a forged instrument, and appeals.
Affirmed.
J. Lee Cearley, of Cisco, and H. N. Nelson, of Carthage, for appellant.
Alvin M. Owsley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State. ,

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, P. J.
Appellant was convicted under the second count of the indictment charging him with unlawfully attempting to pass a forged instrument.
It is unnecessary to make a statement of or discuss the evidence. The jury was warranted in finding the verdict.
There is but one hill of exceptions in the record. It recites that defendant on cross-examination of the witness Middle-brook asked the following question:
"Grider — do you know Grider; you say you know Grider? A. He picked cotton for me. Q. Do you consider him a straight, honest, upright fellow?
"The State: We object to that as irrelevant and immaterial."
Appellant stated that he offered this evidence as tending to show Grider's connection with the check, "that he was of that kind or character, and that Mr. Middlebrook knew his reputation, and I am just trying to prove his reputation as to being a law-abiding citizen, otherwise, for that purpose." The court sustained the state's objection, and appellant excepted. This is the bill. What Middlebrook would have answered, or what was expected in answer to the question, is not stated. Whether his answer would have been favorable or unfavorable is not shown. As the bill is presented, we are unable to say that there was error in the action of the court. The reply of the witness, had he been permitted to answer, should have been 1 stated, so that this court could ascertain whether it was relevant or not. The bill is too indefinite for revision.
The judgment is affirmed.
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