GOODWIN v. STATE

No. 30156.

320 S.W.2d 852 (1959)

Guy B. GOODWIN, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 21, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bailey & Blum, by Ben Blum, Houston, Arthur Mitchell, Austin, for appellant.

Wallace T. Barber, Dist. Atty., San Marcos, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

This is a conviction under Art. 567b Vernon's Ann.P.C. based upon the giving of a check for $112.50 without sufficient funds, the punishment being three years in the penitentiary and a fine of $1,000.

The indictment alleged that by delivering said check and by the use of false pretenses, appellant secured from Mrs. Bessie Brown fifteen shares of stock of the North Carolina Natural Gas Corporation, and further alleged that appellant represented...

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