Allen v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is swindling; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of three years.

After the formal parts, the indictment charges as follows:

“J. M. Allen did then and there by means of false pretenses and fraudulent devices and fraudulent representations then and there knowingly made by him, the said J. M. Allen, to T. J. Earnest induce and cause the said T. J. Earnest to deliver to him the said J. M. Allen, and the said J. M. Allen did then and there by the means aforesaid acquire from the said T. J. Earnest the sum of $5,000, of the value of…