Alvarez v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Appellant was indicted and convicted under the first count of an indictment charging her with a fraudulent conversion of §260 in money, the property of Lillie Olivares, which money had theretofore come into her possession by virtue of a contract of hiring and borrowing with the said Lillie Olivares, penalty two years in the penitentiary.

We are met at the outset with the contention that the facts make out a case of theft by false pretext in that a fraudulent intent is conclusively shown to exist on the part of appellant at the very time the property was acquired and that…