State v. Christian

HANSON, Judge.

Defendant was convicted on two counts of an Information of the crime of Obtaining Money And Property By False Pretenses. Each of the counts alleged defendant unlawfully obtained money and property from the Red Owl Store in Watertown by the aid of a false token in the form of an “insufficient fund” check. He appeals from the concurrent sentences of three years in the State Penitentiary.

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain conviction is not directly questioned. It appears that on December 2, 1968 defendant opened a checking account in the First National Bank of Watertown…