Cummings v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of swindling, and given four years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. A number of errors are assigned, but we will only notice one, as that disposes of the case. The indictment is as follows: The said W. E. Cummings, “by means of false pretenses and devices and fraudulent representations, then and there knowingly and fraudulently made by him to Adolph Cohen, and which false pretenses and devices and fraudulent representations were then and there relied upon by the said Adolph Cohen, did induce the said Adolph Cohen to deliver to him, the…