Lovine v. State

Krueger, Judge.

The offense is theft of money over $50.00; the punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

The States’s testimony, briefly stated, shows that appellant came to Beaumont and opened an office in the Hotel Beaumont. She advertised that she was a trained palmist or teacher of Yogi and claimed to possess the power and ability to forecast and foretell the future. The prosecuting witness, John Stine, who owned and operated a dairy and who was also engaged in growing and farming rice, went to see her to ascertain what the market price of rice…