Farmer v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The conviction is for the offense of swindling. The indictment charges that appellant by fraudulent representations acquired from Byrdie DeHon the sum of seventy dollars, the charging part of the indictment being as follows: “He, the said Clarence E. Farmer did then and there falsely pretend, and fraudulently represent to the said Byrdie DeHon that he, the said Clarence E. Farmer was then and there the owner, manager, agent and employee of the National Business College of Ft. Worth, Texas, and that he was working and acting in connection with and by authority of the said…