Haley v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for theft; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

There were but two witnesses in the case, both testifying for the State. Mrs. Doak, a widow, seventy-two years of age, had been swindled out of $3,800.00. Appellant went to see her and represented to her that he worked with the chief of police and some secret service men, and that if she would give him $200.00 to be split by him three ways with the parties he worked with, she would get her money back out of which she had been swindled. She gave him her check for $200.00, which he collected and appropriated. The…