Harrison v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of swindling A. S. Watlington out of the sum of $45.50, and fined $250, and given one year’s confinement in the county jail.

In brief, the evidence discloses that the city of Texarkana had a pest-house, and an agreement with the commissioners court that the county would bear half the expense of maintaining it; that in pursuance of this agreement the commissioners court entered an order assuming one-half of certain expenses, which carried, among others, the item of $45.50 due appellant as a guard at said pesthouse. The commissioners court, after…