Johnson v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of swindling and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The charging part of the indictment is as follows: “. . . did then and there with wilful design to receive benefit of him, the said E. W. Johnson, and to cause injury to one J. M. Ferrell, request and solicit the said J. M. Ferrell, to sign as drawer, a certain promissory note in words and figures following, to wit:

‘$250.00 Haskell, Texas, Aug. 31, 1907.

Thirty days after date for value received, I, we, or either of us, promise to pay to the order of the Haskell National…