Rowland v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Judge.

Appellant, Mitchell Rowland, was convicted of obtaining property by false pretenses — a crime denounced by KRS 434.050 —and was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.

In October 1960 Rowland went to a nursing home owned and operated by Mrs. Ouida Nance and told her that he was L. K. Johnson or L. J. Johnson (she was not sure about the initials) and that he was president of a union in Calvert City which was soliciting advertisements for the Calvert City telephone directory. While the proof is not too certain on this point, it appears that he was…