Troup v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, Avas convicted in the district court of Muskogee county of the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses, and his punishment fixed by the court at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for seven years.

The evidence of the state was that Margaret Hilton, the prosecuting witness, had bought four lots in Muskogee county from the defendant, which he had never owned, and had paid thereon $600, the full purchase price; that she was pressing defendant for a deed to the lots; that on or about the 15th day of August, 1926, defendant took her to the…