Marks v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of a conspiracy to commit a felony, and by the jury given a sentence of five years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charges appellant and one Betty Marks, his wife, with a conspiracy to commit theft from one E. W. Alexander.

It appears from the facts that Betty Marks, under the name of Madam Thompson, was a fortune teller or clairvoyant; that her husband, appellant, had rented a building in Waxahachie and equipped the same with electric lights, and a sewing machine and furniture, and had published in the daily newspaper a notice as follows:

“Phrenologist…