Art. 38.19. INTENT TO DEFRAUD IN FORGERY. In trials of forgery, it need not be proved that the defendant committed the act with intent to defraud any particular person. It shall be sufficient to prove that the forgery was, in its nature, calculated to injure or defraud any of the sovereignties, bodies corporate or politic, officers or persons, named in the definition of forgery in the Penal Code.
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.
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