Salter v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of swindling, and given two years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. The swindle is alleged to consist in the exchange of one hundred acres of land in Panola County, for and in consideration of thirty-four mares, of the value of $10 each. The indictment alleges that appellant, at the time of the alleged exchange, represented to one Riggs, the prosecutor, “that all of said one hundred acres of land was fine creek bottom land, lying and being situate on McFadden creek; that forty-five acres of said land, was improved, and under fence and in…