Luce v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The appeal is from a verdict and judgment finding the appellant guilty of swindling. The transaction grows out of an exchange of property in which the injured party, Bobbie Sufrett, conveyed a lot to one J. L. Carter, and received in exchange therefor two vendor’s lien notes, executed by R. T. Morris, and secured by a lien upon certain lands situated in Culberson County. The indictment appears to have been drawn on the theory that the acquisition of the lots of land by false pretenses was within the swindling statute. The trial court, however, in submitting the case to the jury,…