King v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for swindling, tried and convicted. 1. Appellant in his motion for new trial complains of the action of the court in overruling his motion to quash the indictment. There is no such motion in the record; however, there is a motion in arrest of judgment alleging that “the indictment fails to charge any offense, in that it fails to charge or allege in express terms any sale or delivery of the cattle in question to the injured parties.” The indictment charges, among other things, that “the said W. J. King did then and there falsely pretend and fraudulently…