Blackwell v. State

BE O OKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for swindling C. W. Zenker out of the sum of $20, and his punishment assessed at one day’s imprisonment in the county jail and a fine of $100. The charging part of the information is, in substance, as follows: That K. E. Blackwell, by means of false pretenses and devices and fraudulent representations, then and there knowingly and fraudulently made by him to Will Hennersdorf, agent and employe for C. W. Zenker, did induce the said Hennersdorf to deliver to said Blackwell, by the. means aforesaid, the sum of $20, in lawful money of the Hnited States,…