Hale v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Affirming.

Onis Hale was indicted in the Calloway circuit court for the crime of getting money under false pretenses by selling a horse to another, representing the horse to be sound when in fact the horse was unsound, and he knew it, and falsely and feloniously pretended it was sound and thereby obtained $75 from Isaac Woodall, the person to whom the false representation was made. On a trial of the case he was found guilty as charged, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary from one to five years. He appeals.

The first ob jection…