Westmoreland v. State

SMITH, Justice:

A. F. Westmoreland was tried in the Circuit Court of Lee County, Mississippi, upon a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He was convicted and sentenced to serve a term of three years in the penitentiary.

The pertinent parts of the indictment were as follows:

[Represented to the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, Tupelo, Mississippi, a corporation, that a certain negotiable evidence of debt, to-wit: a conditional sales contract #39539, dated November 2, 1968, and purportedly signed by one William Kincaid, for the purchase of one New Holland Silage Cutter #818, Serial…