Douglas v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the offense of theft, a felony, and by the jury found guilty and assessed a punishment of seven years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The facts evidence a rather unique connection of two methods used to obtain money upon a false pretext, and an appropriation thereof. We will endeavor to give a short summary thereof.

Mrs. George B. Simmons, a lady seventy years old, lived in the city of Dallas, Texas, and owned a cottage near the Methodist hospital in that city. Prior to the occurrence here the subject of the indictment, she was called…