Crawford v. State
| Court | Court of Appeals of Texas |
| Citation | 19 S.W. 766 |
| Parties | CRAWFORD v. STATE. |
| Decision Date | 11 June 1892 |
v.
STATE.
Appeal from Hopkins county court.
Rufus Crawford, alias James Wells, was convicted of forging and uttering an order, and appeals. Reversed.
R. H. Harrison, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
SIMKINS, J.
Appellant was indicted for forgery and uttering the forged instrument, and, under the charge of the court, was found guilty of both offenses, and punished by two years in the penitentiary for forgery, and was further punished by two additional years in the penitentiary for uttering the forged instrument, and appeals to this court. The alleged forged document was as follows: "T. L. JUNELL, at Home. Mr. S. P. Mann, pay to James Wells $1 and a half, and I will pay you. I have got no change." The indictment charged that the defendant made this instrument on the 19th day of June, 1891, in Hopkins county, with intent to injure and defraud, and with the purpose of presenting it to S. P. Mann as the act of T. L. Junell, and representing that he was James Wells, the payee. The second count alleged that the defendant, on the 19th day of June, 1891, did knowingly and fraudulently pass as true to S. P. Mann the forged instrument above described, and represented that he was James Wells, the payee, and that the said instrument was the act of T. L. Junell, and it was made to enable the said James Wells to get $1.50 in said instrument mentioned. There are three questions in the case we desire to notice:
1. Defendant objected to the introduction of the instrument on the ground of variance. The original instrument is sent up in the record, but, on inspection, we cannot say the court erred in admitting it to the jury.
2. Defendant moved in arrest of judgment because the instrument alleged to have been forged is not such an instrument which, if true, would create pecuniary liability. It cannot be denied that if the name of the proposed drawer of the order, T. L. Junell, had been signed at the end instead of the beginning the instrument would have been a valid, legal order binding upon him, such as would sustain an indictment. Hendrick's Case, 26 Tex. App. 177, 9 S. W. Rep. 555, 557. Does the place where the signature of T. L. Junell appears, had he in truth given the order, make any difference, so far as his liability is concerned? The rule, as laid down by the authorities, is that if the maker intended to be bound by the order or written instrument it makes no difference where his name appears. This is settled by elementary writers, and is now the law of this state. In Fulshear v. Randon, 18 Tex. 277, it is held that, in order to bind a party to a written contract or agreement, it is not necessary that his signature should appear at the end of it. If he writes his name in any part of the agreement it may be taken as his signature, provided it is written for the purpose of giving authenticity to the instrument. Newton v. Emerson, 66 Tex. 145, 18 S. W. Rep. 348; 3 Pars. Cont. §§ 8, 344; 1 Daniel, Neg. Inst. § 74. The instrument, then, if genuine,...
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