Court Opinion

ID: 9862928
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 02:29:18.299261+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:38:27.790809
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ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
WOODLEY, Judge.
Our attention is directed to a variance between the instrument set out in the indictment according to its tenor and alleged to have been forged and the instrument offered in evidence as it appeared at the time it was made and passed by appellant at “Randall’s No. 2” in Houston.
The state’s evidence, including the testimony of Mary Heatherman, employee at Randall’s No. 2, and the picture taken of appellant and of the check, shows that the words and figures “Signature not like on file 35-107”, which appear on the instrument set out in the indictment, were placed on the check offered in evidence after it had been passed and the number A-05413 was placed on such check by Mary Heatherman when she cashed it.
The variance is fatal and renders the evidence insufficient to sustain the conviction. Payne v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 391 S.W.2d 53; Strong v. State, 143 Tex.Cr.R. 641, 160 S.W.2d 923; Harvey v. State, 132 Tex.Cr.R. 213, 104 S.W.2d 26.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is granted and the judgment is now reversed and the cause remanded.