Montez v. People

Plaintiffs in error, defendants below, who had been deputies in the office of the treasurer of Huerfano county, were indicted by a grand jury on eight counts wherein in various forms they were charged with the commission of the same number of criminal offenses, all allegedly arising from their conduct in connection with the assignment of tax sale certificate No. 218 of Huerfano county. In the trial thereof, at the conclusion of the people’s case, the district attorney elected to proceed on count six which charged defendants with obtaining $140.62 from Huerfano county by false pretenses, and a…