Brown v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant’s punishment was fixed at a fine of $100 and twenty-four hours in the county jail, under an indictment charging swindling of property under the value of $50, to the effect that appellant falsely represented that one J. H. Walker owned a certain lot to wit, lot number 221, located in the town of Pleasanton, Atascosa County, State of Texas, and had a right to dispose of the same, and by false and fraudulent representations so made procured from one 'Yalente Maurico the sum of $20 in money and one certain note, alleged to be of the value of $20, which Was a vendor’s lien…