116 Tex. Crim. 97 - Simms v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““... [Wjhen one signs the name of another to a document expressly stating in the writing that same is so signed by himself as agent, this purports to be the act of the agent and in no wise the act of his principal. We are at a loss to see how the question of determining the validity of the document by proof aliunde that the agent was authorized to sign the name of his principal, in any wise prevents or hinders the act done, viz. the signing of the name of the principal by his agent from appearing to be the physical act alone of the agent. A document so signed in no sense purports to have been signed by the principal but is in fact signed only by the agent and necessarily purports to have been signed by him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sales v. State