State v. Robinson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant was convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses and appeals.

According to the evidence for the state, the defendant was one of three men who very cleverly imposed on the confidence of one C. P. Hale, whereby they fraudulently induced him to make repeated investments in a certain oil and gas lease of little or no value.

1. The first error urged is that defendant never had a preliminary examination and had not been bound over for trial upon the charges set forth in the information and that his plea in abatement alleging these…