Odom v. State

Appellant, J. A. Odom, was indicted, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary on the charge of obtaining from Pagan-Peel Company, a corporation, money and goods of the value of five hundred and seventy-five dollars, by means of false pretenses, in violation of section 1166, Code of 1906 (section 893, Hemingway’s Code), from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal. The statute under which appellant was indicted follows:

“Every person who, with intent to cheat or defraud another, shall designedly, by color of any false token or writing, or by any other false pretense, obtain the signature…