Legal Opinion

Tooke v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided January 26, 1887No. 2205PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. This conviction was for swindling, and the penalty assessed against the appellant was a term of four years in the penitentiary. Ho statement of the facts in proof seems necessary.

1Opinion of the Court

White, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is from a sentence of four years in the penitentiary, upon a conviction for swindling. Appellant is an áttorney at law, and he has addressed a letter to this court, requesting that an order be made to have him brought from the jail of Travis county, in which he is confined, to Galveston, in order that he may appear in person before, and in person present to this court the appeal he has taken from the judgment of the lower court. We have caused his letter to be filed and will treat it as a. motion to that effect. As shown by the record, appellant was…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Webb v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976
  2. Chick v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1955
  3. Ferguson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1937

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