Cook v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of obtaining money under false pretenses and given a sentence of three years in the penitentiary.

A number of assignments of error have been interposed, but they may all be disposed of under the general contention of the plaintiff in error that the evidence preponderates against the verdict and judgment below.

One W. J. Lanier was the owner of a retail grocery in Jackson. He also owned a large dwelling house and it was the custom of his wife from time to time to take boarders. The plaintiff in error, a young man, came to Jackson on March 23, 1935, and…