Berman v. State

The appellant, Irwin Berman, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County of false pretenses (three counts). He was sentenced to three concurrent nine-month terms in the Montgomery County Detention Center with three months of each sentence suspended upon making restitution.

In seeking a reversal of the judgments below, the appellant’s principal assignment of error is that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions.

On January 1, 1973, Berman formed a corporation known as the Greatway Travel Ltd. of which he was president. The purpose of the company was to…