BOND v. STATE

No. 32996.

345 S.W.2d 520 (1961)

Joe H. BOND, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 8, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Billings, Neil Brans, David McCord, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., Jerome V. Chamberlain, Phil Burleson, Assts. Dist. Atty., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

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

This prosecution grew out of an interim financing arrangement between appellant, a Dallas general contractor, and the Groves Lumber Company of Dallas, who agreed to furnish the money so that appellant might construct a large apartment house in the City of Lubbock.

The focal point in the case is State's Exhibit #2, a payroll or draw sheet which reads as follows:

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