State v. Cruse

This is an appeal by the defendant, Edward Everett Cruse, from his conviction in the circuit court for Marion county of the crime of obtaining money and property by false pretenses in violation of ORS 165.205.

Defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial court to sustain an objection to certain questions about other offenses asked of defendant during his cross-examination by the state.

The defendant, as a witness on his own behalf, admitted that on Saturday, April 22, 1961, he gave the proprietor of a men’s clothing store in Salem a worthless check for $40, and received in exchange both…