Price v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of injuring real estate, and his punishment fixed at a fine of $20, and appeals. The evidence shows that prosecutor, Connor, sold appellant a tract of land, being a quarter of sec. 19, Block No. 97, survey of the H. & T. C. Ry. Co., in Eastland County. The sale was made for $600. Appellant executed his six notes, each for $100, and due annually, extending over a period of six years. After buying the land, appellant built a house on it, worth about $100, and occupied it for several years, not paying anything on the purchase money. Prosecutor, Connor,…