Hesbrook v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appeal is from a conviction for swindling with a sentence of ten years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and his wife were jointly indicted, but he was separately tried. The case went to the jury on the first count in the indictment which charged swindling.

The State alleged in the indictment that appellant and his co-principal, by means of false pretenses and devices, and fraudulent representations, knowingly and fraudulently made by them to Sixto Albarez and Andrea Lopez Albarez, did acquire from said injured parties a certain mineral deed, conveying oil, gas and other…