McClelland v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is under Art. 1538, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., for conversion of an estate; the punishment, ten years.

Trial was in the 27th Judicial District Court of Bell County upon a change of venue from Harris County.

The indictment returned into Criminal District Court No. 5 of Harris County, omitting the formal parts, charged that:

“ * * * on or about the 19th day of December, A.D. 1960, in said County and State, RICHARD H. PUTNEY was the administrator of the estate of Clara L. Currie, deceased, and as such had in his charge the estate, real, personal and mixed, of the said…