Holt v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was charged with theft by false pretext and, upon allegations of prior convictions in accordance with Article 63 of the Penal Code, was given a life sentence in the penitentiary.

Appellant and three others, acting together, consummated the theft of $20,000.00 by false pretext from C. E. Goolsbee and wife, who live in Tyler County, a distance of forty-two miles from Beaumont. In January, 1941, the appellant, under another name than Holt, appeared at the store operated by Mr. Goolsbee in the town of Warren. He made inquiry about some land which he wished to lease for…