Scott v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the 54th District Court of McLennan County, of the offense of swindling of more' than the value of $50, and his punishment fixed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

It was alleged in the indictment as follows: “The said W. M. Scott did falsely pretend and fraudulently represent to the said Jim De Grazier that he had in his possession a certain valid writing obligatory . . . and did then and there by means of said false pretense and fraudulent representation, fraudulently induce the said Jim De Grazier ... to exchange his said eighty-four…