Court Opinion

ID: 5029962
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 05:20:22.597873+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:05:34.321508
License: Public Domain

The offense is passing as true a forged instrument in writing; the punishment, enhanced by two previous convictions for forgery, life.
The indictment alleged the forgery and passing of a check purportedly drawn by Stanley H. Marcus on the National Bank *Page 523 
of Commerce payable to the order of Laura Ann Davis in the sum of $850, dated July 3, 1963.
The evidence shows that such a check was presented by appellant to Mae Starks, a teller at the City Bank and Trust Company, which opened for business in Dallas on July 1, 1963.
The teller cashed the check upon the assumption that the initials "G. B." appearing thereon represented the approval of the bank president, G. B. Bowman.
The check was introduced in evidence. Mae Starks identified appellant at the trial and in a police line up as the person who passed the check to her.
Mr. Bowman, the bank president, testified that he did not approve or initial the check for cashing.
Stanley Marcus, President of Neiman Marcus Company, testified that he did not sign the check; that he did not give appellant permission to sign his name on any check and to his knowledge he did not know her. He further testified that he had not for some years used his middle initial; that his address was on the check but was misspelled; that he did not know a Laura Ann Davis, and that he had never had an account at the National Bank of Commerce.
The prior convictions for forgery alleged for enhancement of punishment were proved by the records and fingerprint testimony.
Appellant did not testify but offered witnesses whose testimony raised the issue of alibi.
The jury resolved the issue against appellant and the evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict.
There are no formal bills of exception or exceptions to the court's charge. The informal bills of exception show no reversible error.
The judgment is affirmed.