State v. Hooker

Defendant, R. L. Hooker, was tried separately upon an information charging him and one Pete Stalberge with the crime of larceny under the provisions of Rem. Code, § 2601, subdivision 2. The first count charged the commission of the crime by color or aid of a false instrument or order. No evidence was introduced in support of this count. The second count charged the commission of the crime by false representations and pretenses. Though extremely inartificially drawn, being overladen with unnecessary verbiage and other unsustained charges, it sufficiently alleged that the defendant, Hooker,…