Sharp v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the unlawful offer to sell securities which had not been registered with the Securities Commission as denounced by Article 581-1 et seq. Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St.; the punishment, five years and a fine of $3,000.

The first 340 pages of this record reveal how appellant aroused the interest and cupidity of a West Texas farmer and through him, the farmer’s doctor and thence to the pharmacist to whom appellant offered to sell 5,000 shares of preferred and 100 shares of common stock in Central Equity Corporation of Wichita Falls, Texas, for the sum of $5,100. No stock was…