Burnley v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Ratliff

Reversing.

The grand jury of Todd county, Kentucky, returned an indictment against appellant, charging him with the offense of obtaining property from another by false pretenses. It appears from the allegations of the indictment that the alleged offeilse was committed by appellant by obtaining from Bart Gf. Gooch and the Gooch Distributing Company a certain amount of whiskey and gave in payment therefor his check in the sum of $2,935.75, which check was not paid, hut returned by the bank upon which it was drawn marked “Insufficient Funds”'.

Appellant was…