Cahill v. State

The indictment charged that the appellant did falsely pretend to Elizabeth Rollings with intent to defraud that he owned all of the interest and assets in the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Mobile, Alabama, and by means of such false pretense obtained from said Elizabeth Rollings twenty thousand dollars. The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty and a judgment sentencing appellant to imprisonment in the penitentiary for six years.

On the trial of the case the prosecuting witness Elizabeth Rollings testified in substance that she was fifty-nine years of age and that she first heard of the Fred…