Calkins v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appellant was convicted of theft, by conversion, as a bailee, of property over the value of $20, and his punishment assessed at three years’' imprisonment in the penitentiary. In view of the disposition made of the case on this appeal, a general statement of it is unnecessary.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
The first count in the indictment charged swindling. The second count charged theft under contract of bailment, under article 742a, Penal Code, and, omitting formal parts, alleges, that appellant “did then and there have possession of 500 bushels of Bo. 2 wheat, of the value of forty cents per bushel, and of the aggregate value of two hundred dollars, as the agent and manager of the Wichita Boiler Mill Company, a corporation duly incorporated, the said wheat then and there being the corporeal personal and movable property of Walter Parker, and the possession thereof having…
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