Parten v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Swindling is the offense; the punishment, two years in the State penitentiary.

The State charged that appellant swindled Josie Handley out of $100.00 in money by representing to her “that they, the said R. A. Parten and Bunkum Champion and Deward Reeves had on the 4th day of December, 1940, been to the State Insane Asylum at Rusk, Texas, and had made arrangements at said Asylum in Rusk, Texas, for the admittance of T. F. Handley, an insane person and the husband of the said Josie Handley, into said Asylum upon payment of a Sanitarium fee of One Hundred Dollars.” The foregoing…