Mathews v. State

On the 24th day of October, 1917, plaintiff in error, J. Dawson Mathews, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted of the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses from the Oklahoma State Bank of Cushing on the 19th day of March, 1917, and was sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of three years. From this judgment and sentence he appeals.

It appears from the evidence on the part of the state: That at and before the date of the offense charged one J. Greeley Jones was operating a purported banking institution in Houston, Tex., known as the Commonwealth Trust…