Mount v. State

317 S.W.2d 212 (1958)

J. C. MOUNT, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 29794.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 28, 1958.

Rehearing Denied October 8, 1958.

Martin, Moore & Tackett, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Howard M. Fender, Dist. Atty., John E. McLean & Albert F. Fick, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is theft by false pretext under an indictment charging ordinary theft; the punishment, five years.

The appellant, a practicing attorney and secretary of the Home Guaranty Abstract…