Doxey v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of swindling, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of seven years; hence this appeal.

The facts of the case tend to show that appellant for some years had been doing business with W. B. Worsham & Company, bankers at Henrietta, Clay County, Texas; of which W. B. Worsham was president; that about the 8th or 9th of July, 1902, appellant, then being and living in the territory of Oklahoma, wrote W. B. Worsham at Henrietta, and among other things, represented to him, as follows: “I want to be carried until can ship to…