People v. Novotny

Thomas K. Novotny prosecutes this writ of error to procure the reversal of his conviction in the criminal court of Cook county of the crime of obtaining property by means of the confidence game, on account of errors occurring during the trial as well as the insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.

The testimony for the People tended to show these facts : The plaintiff in error was a volunteer Liberty bond salesman, In July, 1918, he was in the store of Wartun Margosian, in Chicago, and there met Rapan Mananianian, the prosecuting witness. Margosian told Novotny that Mananianian…