State v. Snyder
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from, Linn District Court. Information, charging that Snyder, on the 28 th of November 1876, at Linn county, designedly, feloniously, and with intent to cheat and defraud the firm of Hood & Kincaids, by means of certain false pretenses and representations, obtained the signature of said firm to a certain check or draft for $850, which he took into his possession and negotiated, obtaining thereon the sum of $850 in money. Plea, not guilty.
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Appeal from, Linn District Court. Information, charging that Snyder, on the 28 th of November 1876, at Linn county, designedly, feloniously, and with intent to cheat and defraud the firm of Hood & Kincaids, by means of certain false pretenses and representations, obtained the signature of said firm to a certain check or draft for $850, which he took into his possession and negotiated, obtaining thereon the sum of $850 in money. Plea, not guilty. Trial at the August Term 1877. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and Snyder was sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
After the appellant, A. J. Snyder, was discharged by this court in the case of In re Snyder, reported in 17 Kas. 542, he was rearrested for having obtained by false pretenses, on November 28th 1876, the signature of the firm of Messrs. Hood & Kincaids to a check of $850, and having also obtained by like pretenses the possession of the check after it had been certified. Under the information subsequently filed against him, he was convicted on one of the counts, and his punishment assessed at three years’ confinement at hard labor in the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- In re SnyderSupreme Court of Kansas · 1877
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