Clonts v. State

JOHNSON, Judge.

• The appellant, John Howard Clonts, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Jefferson County for the offense of obtaining property by false pretense and, upon trial and a plea of not guilty, the jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged. Appellant was sentenced by the trial judge to a period of five years in the penitentiary and from such conviction and sentence, he maintains this appeal.

According to the State’s evidence, the appellant, accompanied by two other men, drove an old model automobile into a Texaco Service Station at the corner of 27th Street and 35th Avenue,…