State v. Cobb

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from a conviction for unlawfully obtaining goods by misrepresentation. 1 Reversed.

Defendant was employed by an appliance company as salesman. Without permission he obtained the issuance of a Hilton Carte Blanche credit card in the name of his employer, which card listed him as Vice-President of the company. This was not the fact. The matter came to the attention of his employer, who censured him, discharged him and who, on May 2, 1961, notified the Hilton Company in writing that defendant had no authority to open such an account, requesting immediate cancellation of…