Wheeler v. People

The defendant, in three cases, was chargéd with, tried for and convicted of obtaining, from different persons, their respective moneys by means of confidence-games. The cases were consolidated for trial, and separate verdicts rendered-in each, finding the defendant guilty as charged. After motions for new trial, and in arrest of judgment, were interposed and overruled, sentence of the defendant to the penitentiary was imposed in each case, the judgments running concurrently. To reverse these judgments, this suit is prosecuted.

The first ease was filed August 10, 1909, and the prosecuting…