Commonwealth v. Hancock

Kreider, J.,

This case comes before the court on a motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial. Defendant, indicted for the crime of cheating by fraudulent pretenses,1 was found guilty by a jury.

The Facts

On June 4, 1951, defendant, Vernon Hancock, came to the office of the E. R. Klinger Lumber Company, at Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pa. Defendant in*365formed E. Leroy Klinger, the president of the lumber company, that, he had a contract2 to build a garage or service station with a few apartments on the second floor at Fountain Springs near Ashland in Schuylkill County, Pa., and that he…