Palmer v. State

ON REHEARING.

November 29, 1922.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The corrected record requires consideration of the case on its merits. Conviction is for swindling; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of three years.

The Slaughter-Mayfield Company was a partnership composed of John T. Mayfield and J. B. Moses. The appellant arranged with the firm to furnish him two suits of clothes. One of them was delivered to him, and in payment therefor he issued a check for $252.50, payable to the firm mentioned, upon a bank in Breckenridge, Texas. The transaction took place with John…