Barnett v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted on an indictment charging that he obtained from H. J. Lange a Ford automobile of the value of Seven Hundred and Thirty-Five ($735.00) Dollars by fraudulently giving him a check on a bank where he did not have sufficient funds to pay such check and all other checks and demands outstanding on said bank. The punishment assessed was four years in the penitentiary.

In the forenoon of Saturday, April 5, 1947, the appellant and his brother, D. L. Barnett, went to Lange’s home in answer to a newspaper advertisement offering a Ford car for sale. They arrived a…