Richardson v. State

332 S.W.2d 736 (1960)

W. B. RICHARDSON, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 31352.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 10, 1960.

Chas. H. Dean, Plainview, for appellant.

Wayland G. Holt, Dist. Atty., Snyder, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is theft by false pretext; the punishment, five years.

Trial was had in Scurry County on a change of venue.

The injured party, a rancher in Borden County, testified that he had known appellant for some time and had sold him cattle on prior occasions, that payment in such cases had been…