Mayes v. State

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for swindling by giving a worthless check, punishment assessed was two years in the penitentiary.

Prosecution was under the Act of the 46th Leg. 1939, R. S., page 246, which is found in the Pocket Part of Vernon’s Tex. P. C., Vol. 1, designated therein as Art. 567b.

The indictment alleged that appellant, in Houston County, with intent to defraud gave to Dick Murchison a check for $84.52 in payment for lumber, the check being drawn against the Moore State Bank at Llano, Texas. It was further alleged that appellant did not have in said bank sufficient funds…