EASON v. STATE

No. 30330.

320 S.W.2d 11 (1959)

Julian Lloyd EASON, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 21, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Gabriel Nahas, Jr., James Royall, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White and Monroe Northrup, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is theft by false pretext; the punishment, 90 days in jail.

The injured party testified that his cafe business had not been good and that the appellant represented to him that this situation was the result of someone having planted some "hoodoo stuff" on his premises which he would locate and remove for a fee of $25. He stated, "I told my wife, I don't believe this" and "my wife said she wanted to pay him, that if there...

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