Walkup v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is swindling, a felony; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Appellant secured a loan of four thousand dollars from the Midway Bank and Trust Company of Dalhart. He executed a mortgage on sixty head of cattle branded 6/., representing to the officer of the bank making the loan that the cattle belonged to him. Prior to making the loan, an agent of the bank went with appellant to New Mexico, where sixty head of cattle bearing the brand referred to were pointed out to him. It later developed that these ‘cattle belonged to a Mr. Howell, and…