Dix v. State

Krueger, Judge.

The conviction is for theft; punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of seven years.

It appears from the record that in the early part of February, 1937, appellant appeared at the Union State Bank & Trust Company in the City of Laredo and applied for a loan of $10,000. He offered as collateral security twelve bonds in denominations of $1000 each which appeared to have been issued by the American Telegraph & Telephone Company of New York. He represented to Mr. P. H. Stanford, the Vice-President of the bank, that he was the owner of said bonds.…