OPINION
This is а post-conviction writ of habeаs corpus proceeding under the provisions of Art. 11.07, V.A.C.C.P.
The petitioner wаs convicted for the offense оf forgery. The punishment, enhanced by proof that the appellant had been convicted of two priоr felony convictions, is imprisonment for life.
The petitioner urges that the indictment on which he was convicted is fundamentally defective because it fails to allege all of the elements of the offense of forgery. A fundamentally defective indictment may bе collaterally attacked in a post-conviction habeas corpus proceeding.
Ex parte Page,
The indictmеnt on which the petitioner was convicted alleges that the petitiоner “ . . . on or about July 8, 1974, did then and there unlаwfully with intent to defraud and harm, forge, by making а writing as follows: . . . ” Then attached to thе indictment is the photographic copy of a check, the allеged forged instrument.
The petitioner urgеs that since the indictment fails to allege that the purported maker of the check did not authorize the аct, it fails to allege a necessary element of the offense. He relies on
Minix v. State,
“The element of forgery under Art. 797, V.A.P.C. (1925) of ‘without lawful authority’ has been brought forward in V.T. C.A., Penal Code Sec. 32.21(а)(l)(A)(i), which requires that the purported mаker ‘did not authorize the act’ of mаking the writing .
“Although this prosecution was not for forgery by making under Sec. 32.-21(a)(1)(A), it was brought for forgery by possession with intent to utter undеr Sec. 32.21(a)(1)(C), which by reference еxpressly incorporates the elements of Sec. 32.21(a)(1)(A) and (B). Simple usе of the word ‘forge’ in the indictment is insufficient to incorporate by referеnce the missing element.”
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Minix v. State,
supra, is cоntrolling and requires that we reverse the judgment in this cause. See also
Landry v. State,