Legal Opinion

Barker v. State

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided September 6, 1979No. 5089PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ROSE, Justice.

This appeal by appellant-Kenneth L. Barker from a conviction of obtaining property by false pretenses under § 6-3-106, W.S.1977 1 , presents only one issue which we need resolve, namely:

Was § 6-3-106, W.S.1977 (the false-pretenses statute, fn. 1, supra), repealed by § 6-3-110, W.S.1977 2 (the insufficient-funds-check law), insofar as the use of a check with insufficient funds is concerned, thereby precluding a conviction under § 6-3-106?

We will hold that it was not, and affirm the trial court.

We parse the aforementioned statutes as follows:

The insufficient-funds statute — §…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Christiansen v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979
  2. State v. RoderickIdaho Supreme Court · 1962
  3. People v. LaRoseMichigan Court of Appeals · 1978
  4. Driver v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1979
  5. People v. VidaMichigan Court of Appeals · 1966

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Lopez v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1990
  2. State v. FoleySupreme Court of Vermont · 1982
  3. Haskell v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2018
  4. Commonwealth v. GorenMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2008
  5. Trevino v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 2006

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