Robertson v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The conviction is for the offense of swindling. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of three years.

It is charged in the indictment that on the 14th day of August, 1937, H. A. Robertson made, in Tarrant County, certain false and fraudulent representations to J. W. Reed, the nature of which we do not deem necessary to state here, by which he obtained from Reed property in excess of the value of $100. That said representations made by appellant were well known by him to be false.

The only question presented which we need to discuss is one of…