State v. Freeman

BECTON, Judge.

The defendant, Donald Abernathy Freeman, appeals five convictions (three counts of false pretenses under N.C. Gen. Stat. Sec. 14-100 (1981) and two counts of conspiracy to commit false pretenses) and the sentences imposed, totalling thirty years.

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The prosecution presented its case primarily through Harold Brown, defendant’s co-conspirator, who testified that Brown and defendant agreed to set up a check-cashing scheme that worked as follows: At the direction of defendant Freeman, Brown went to a bank and opened a business checking account in the name of Brown-Invesco Services, a…