Peiffer v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted of confidence game on the first count of an information and obtaining property by false pretenses on the second. On the first he received a sentence of ten to twenty years and on the second nine to ten years, sentences to run concurrently. To review that judgment he prosecutes this writ.

The seven assignments may be thus summarized: 1. Error in the admission of evidence; 2. error in the rejection of evidence; 3. error in refusing certain instructions; 4. error in giving instruction No. 7.

A brief statement of facts is…