State v. Mathes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant was convicted of a felony for obtaining eleven automobiles by false pretenses.

The state charged and its evidence tended to prove the perpetration of a devious and complicated scheme whereby A. R. Cogswell, of Kirwin, was completely swindled out of $5,400 worth of new and secondhand automobiles by the defendant Jesse F. Mathes, and for which Cogswell received nothing. It appears that as a preliminary to the transaction with Cogswell the defendant made a colorable contract with one Shaffer of Smith county to sell Shaffer a half…