Cothran v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Travis. Tried below before Hon. D. A. McFall, County Judge. This appeal is from a conviction for dealing in futures, the punishment being assessed at a fine of $100 and thirty days’ imprisonment in the county jail. The charging part of the information is set out in the opinion.
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Appeal from the County Court of Travis. Tried below before Hon. D. A. McFall, County Judge. This appeal is from a conviction for dealing in futures, the punishment being assessed at a fine of $100 and thirty days’ imprisonment in the county jail. The charging part of the information is set out in the opinion. A motion was made to quash the information: (1) Because no offense was charged; (2) It does not charge that there was “no intention” on the part of either defendant or purchasers of contracts for actual bona fide delivery, etc. This motion was overruled, and a bill of exceptions saved.…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted for dealing in futures. Omitting the formal parts, the information charges that appellant “was the agent and representative of the firm of Fairchild & Hob-son, whose other names are to affiant unknown, and as such agent and representative of said firm of Fairchild & Hobson, said C. H. Cothran, did then and there unlawfully conduct, carry on, and transact a business oommonly known as ‘dealing in futures,’ in agricultural products, to-wit: cotton, with no intention of an actual, bona fide delivery of the article and thing bought and sold, against the…
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