Allen v. State

Citations

• 16 Tex. Ct. App. 150
• 1884 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 82

Syllabus

<p>Swindling.—Information to charge the offense of swindling must allege that some false representation as to existing facts or past events was made by the accused. Mere false promises or false professions of intention, though acted upon, are not sufficient. The information in this case charged, substantially, that defendant promised to pay one B. fifty cents for four certain fish, if said B. would deliver the same at his, defendant’s, house; that B. did so deliver the fish, and that the said representations of the defendant were then and there false, etc. Held, that the information was insufficient to charge swindling or any other offense.</p>