McKINZIE v. STATE

No. 30260.

320 S.W.2d 674 (1959)

J. E. McKINZIE, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 4, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pat Beene, Snyder, E. W. Boedeker, Levelland, Dewey C. Cox, Jr., Ranger, for appellant.

Wayland G. Holt, Dist. Atty., Snyder, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The offense is theft by false pretext; the punishment, four years.

The indictment was in the ordinary form for felony theft, it being charged therein that the appellant took from J. B. Turner a check, dated August 2, 1957, of the value of $5,000, with the intent to deprive said Turner of the value thereof and to appropriate the same to his own benefit.

J. B. Turner testified that he attended a meeting with several other persons...

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