Garrett v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for fraudulently obtaining board and lodging, punishment being assessed at a fine of twenty-five dollars.

Prosecution was under article 1551, P. C. (1925), which reads as follows: “Every person who shall obtain board or lodging in any hotel or boarding house by means of any trick or deception or false or fraudulent representations, or statement or pretense, and shall fail or refuse to pay therefor, shall be held to have obtained the same with the intent to cheat and defraud such hotel or boarding house keeper, and shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars,…