Case Name: BLAND v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1939-06-14
Citations: 130 S.W.2d 292
Docket Number: No. 20493
Parties: BLAND v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 130
Pages: 292–294

Head Matter:
BLAND v. STATE.
No. 20493.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 14, 1939.
On Rehearing June 23, 1939.
Mel T. Janes, of Lubbock, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
Conviction is for swindling, punishment being two years in the penitentiary.
The indictment purports to charge the offense of swindling by giving a worthless check for $52.50.
If the indictment as found in the transcript is correctly copied it charges no offense. It charges that appellant by means of said check acquired "certain corporeal personal property." , In other places in the indictment the property is referred to as "said property" or as "the herein described property." Nowhere in the indictment before us is the property obtained described, even in the most general terms. The same rule with reference to description of property obtains in indictments for swindling as for theft. The check described in the indictment contains a notation "For typewriter," but no averment is found that such was "the property delivered to appellant.
The judgment is reversed and prosecution ordered dismissed under the indictment here found.