Carroll v. State

The defendant was convicted of the offense of obtaining the possession of a horse by false pretense, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for an indeterminate term..

The errors complained of relate to the refusal of the trial court to give certain written charges requested by the defendant.

Charge 1 was covered by the court’s oral charge and given written charges 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, and 12.

It is immaterial whether the defendant derived any personal benefit by getting the horse in question, if he got it, and this was not a fact to he considered by the jury along with the other evidence in this…