State v. Augustine

Woods, Judge:

John D. Augustine, a resident of Addison, Pennsylvania, was tried and convicted in Preston County on the charge of obtaining property by false pretenses. He prosecutes error to a judgment whereby he was sentenced to serve two years in the state penitentiary.

According to state’s evidence, it is shown that the defendant, on July 20, 1926, contracted with one Floyd Cale and Eben Liston, to take twenty-two head of three-year old cattle, sometime between October 1st and 15th, at a stipulated price per hundred pounds, at the time making a cash payment thereon of $50.00 to hold the…