Taylor v. State

ALMON, Judge.

A jury found Troyt Taylor guilty of obtaining property by false pretense. His punishment was fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

At the conclusion of the State’s case, appellant moved to exclude the evidence, rested his case, and requested the general affirmative charge.

The alleged pretense is that appellant represented to an agent of the First National Bank of Russellville that he had forty-five Jersey heifers on which he could give a good and valid mortgage.

It is contended in brief that the State failed to prove the falsity of the pretense; hence, the trial court should have…