Moline v. State
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from tlie district court for Phelps county. Prosecution under section 125 of the Criminal Code, for obtaining signature to a certain warranty deed. Tried below before Adams, J. Conviction. In the first place we confess to the court that the state has rarely, if ever, met an attempt more able and more lawless to acquit a thorough scoundrel and cheat on purely technical grounds than the one confronting it in this case.
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Error from tlie district court for Phelps county. Prosecution under section 125 of the Criminal Code, for obtaining signature to a certain warranty deed. Tried below before Adams, J. Conviction. In the first place we confess to the court that the state has rarely, if ever, met an attempt more able and more lawless to acquit a thorough scoundrel and cheat on purely technical grounds than the one confronting it in this case. The evidence is clear and conclusive of the absolute truth of every allegation in the information contained. In fact no pretense was made on the trial of the case that the…
1Opinion of the CourtHolcomb, J.
The defendant was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years on the charge of having by false and fraudulent, representations obtained the signature of one Frederick Krapf to a written instrument, viz., a warranty deed, of the value of more than §35, contrary to the provisions of section 125 of the Criminal Code. To secure a reversal of the judgment of conviction, he prosecutes error.
The criminal prosecution of the defendant has the appearance of having been instituted on the theory that under the provisions of the section mentioned he was guilty of a felony for having…
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