Williams v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The alleged injured party, Laura Johnson, colored, was the first witness examined by the State, and her testimony tended to show that shortly before the finding of the indictment against appellant in this case, she was made the victim of the old stereotyped “flimflam” game, where a pocketbook containing a large sum of money is purported to be found in her presence by one of the two men involved in the alleged commission of the offense charged. Speaking of this appellant she testified:

“I first saw him at the City National Bank which is at the eleven story building, in…