State v. Johnston

WINANS, Judge.

In an information filed in the circuit court at Rapid City, the defendant, Gary Johnston was charged with obtaining property by false pretenses in violation of SDCL 22-41-4. Following a jury trial, the defendant was found guilty and sentenced to eighteen months in the state penitentiary. The videlicet part of the information particularized the offense in the following language: "That the Defendant, Gary Dwight Johnston, at Rapid City, in said Pennington County, State of South Dakota, on or about the 9th day of February, A.D. 1970, then and there being did then and there,…