Bond v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is theft by false pretext; the punishment, two years.

This prosecution grew out of an interim financing arrangement between appellant, a Dallas general contractor, and the Groves Lumber Company of Dallas, who agreed to furnish the money so that appellant might construct a large apartment house in the city of Lubbock.

The focal point in the case is State’s Exhibit No. 2, a payroll or draw sheet which reads as follows:

“Dallas, Texas, 2-27-59

“We, the undersigned, hereby certify that we have received the amounts set opposite our respective names, same being payment in…