Welch v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is theft by false pretext of corporeal personal *417property over the value of fifty dollars. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of three years.

The record shows that on or about the 1st day of March, 1947, appellant appeared at C. R. Cook’s office in Cross Plains and sought to engage Cook to obtain some oil leases for him. Cook, who was at the time engaged in such work for the Phillip’s Petroleum Corporation, told appellant that he could not at that time render the desired services. Appellant told Cook that he would get in touch…