Case Name: Emanuel Pospishel v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1923-06-06
Citations: 95 Tex. Crim. 625
Docket Number: No. 7773
Parties: Emanuel Pospishel v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 95
Pages: 625–628

Head Matter:
Emanuel Pospishel v. The State.
No. 7773.
Decided June 6, 1923.
Rehearing granted November 7, 1923.
1. —Forgery—Practice on Appeal.
In the absence of a statement of facts and bills of exception, the proceedings appearing otherwise regular, the judgment is affirmed.
2. —Same—Indictment—Motion in Arrest of Judgment.
Where no motion was presented in the court below,'either to quash or in arrest of judgment questioning the sufficiency of the indictment, and for the first time its validity is challenged upon motion for rehearing, and it appearing to the court that there is an absence of any explanatory averments showing who the purported maker of the alleged forged instrument was, and of the relation of the parties and other matters necessary to give validity to it, this court must hold that the indictment is fatally defective in substance, and charges no offense against the law, and the prosecution must be dismissed. Following Cagle v. State, 39 Texas Crim. Rep.. 109, and other cases.
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Harris. Tried below before the Honorable C. W. Robinson.
Appeal from a conviction of forgery; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
Fred L. Perkins for appellant. Cited, Belden v. State, 50 Texas Crim. Rep., 565.
R. G. Storey, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
— Conviction is for forgery with an assessed penalty of two years in the penitentiary.
No statement of facts or bills of exception appear in the record. Appellant entered a plea of guilty, and applied for a suspended sentence. In the state of the record we must assume the proceedings were regular.
The judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.