Krueger v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant has appealed from a conviction for swindling, a misdemeanor.

So far as the offense in this case is concerned, the statute defines swindling as the acquisition of any personal or movable property or money by means of same false or deceitful pretense or device or fraudulent representation with intent to appropriate the same to the use of the party so acquiring. (Art. 1421, P. C.)

Before the Act of 1913, page 184, the next article prescribed certain wrongful acts which were included in the above definition of swindling. By said Act of 1913 this subdivision was added to…