Bowers v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged by indictment with theft, evidently by a false pretext, and was assessed a penalty of ten years in the penitentiary.

The facts from the State’s standpoint indicate that appellant and one P. R. Stokes were companions in a scheme to obtain from the complaining witness, one Reuben McGowan, $700.00 in money. The witness was an aged negro man seventy-one years old, a basket maker, living by himself in San Jacinto County, Texas. About October 1, 1937, this Stokes got the negro in an automobile by means of promising the negro $2.00 if he would accompany Stokes to…