Johnson v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant stands convicted of the offense of obtaining property by false pretense.

The indictment against the appellant contained three counts.

Count one charged that appellant “did falsely pretend to Albert Evans, the Vice President of The Choctaw Bank of Butler, Alabama, a banking corporation, that there was on deposit or stored in the St. Louis Terminal Warehouse Company No. 406, a bonded warehouse in Choctaw County, Alabama” — (38,786 board feet of No. 2 or better yellow pine lumber in Lots Nos. 532, 533 and 534), — “and did surrender to said Albert Evans as such Vice…