McKinzie v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The offense is theft by false pretext; the punishment, four years.

The indictment was in the ordinary form for felony theft, it being charged therein that the appellant took from J. B. Turner a check, dated August 2, 1957, of the value of $5,000.00, with the intent to deprive said Turner of the value thereof and to appropriate the same to his own benefit.

J. B. Turner testified that he attended a meeting with several other persons in July, 1957, in Snyder, Texas, where the appellant told them he owned 2,000 acres in the Rangely, Colorado, oil field; that he represented to them…