Ballaine v. District Court of First Judicial District for Box Elder County

TURNER, Justice.

This matter comes before the Court on plaintiff’s petition for a writ of certiorari and also by appeal. The plaintiffs and appellants were convicted in the District Court of Box Elder County, Utah, of the crime of obtaining money and property under false pretenses.

Except for the problems arising about procedure to get this case before this Court, we are confronted with just two contentions. The first is that the information upon which appellants here, defendants below, stood trial, does not'state a public offense, and the second, that the facts proved were insufficient to…