Boscow v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Fayette. Tried below before Hon. W. S. RobsoN, County Judge. This appeal is from a conviction for swindling, under an information which charged appellant with obtaining $15 from one Dunn upon the false pretense that he (appellant) was a practicing physician and member of the San Antonio Medical Institute, of which Dr. Herff was president, and that he was associated with the said Dr. Herff in the practice of medicine.
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Appeal from the County Court of Fayette. Tried below before Hon. W. S. RobsoN, County Judge. This appeal is from a conviction for swindling, under an information which charged appellant with obtaining $15 from one Dunn upon the false pretense that he (appellant) was a practicing physician and member of the San Antonio Medical Institute, of which Dr. Herff was president, and that he was associated with the said Dr. Herff in the practice of medicine. Upon these false statements and pretenses Dunn employed appellant as a physician to treat and cure Ms wife, and in part payment of, and to secure…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge. —
1. The court did not err in permitting Dr. Adolph Herff to testify that he was not associated with defendant in the practice of medicine himself, nor was his son so associated with said defendant. A part of the false pretenses upon which appellant is alleged to have obtained the money from the witness Dunn, who employed him to cure his wife, was that he (appellant) was a member of a medical in stitute in San Antonio, in which there were twelve physicians, Dr. Herff being one, and he (defendant) was associated with Dr. Herff in the practice of medicine. The witness was shown…
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