Smith v. State

Smith was indicted for cheating and swindling. The evidence in behalf of the State sustained the details of the charge as laid in the accusation, and was to the following effect: On a day named the accused came to the house of the prosecutor and told him that L. E. Sheppard, a son of the prosecutor, said for him (the accused) to tell the prosecutor, or the person from whom he got a wagon, to let him have one dollar and seventy-five cents; that he (the accused) wanted to pay rent to the man-he was moving from; that the prosecutor, relying upon that statement, and believing that the accused was…