Sims v. State

The indictment in this case was drawn under section 249 of the Penal Code of 1910. That section provides: “If any person shall designedly, by color of any counterfeit letter or writing made in any other person’s name, or fictitious name, obtain from any person money or other valuable thing, with intent to defraud any person, mercantile house, body corporate, or company of the same [italics ours], he shall be punished by imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary for not less than two nor longer than seven years.” The indictment (formal parts omitted) charged the accused “with the offense of…