People v. Fields

Defendants waived trial by jury and were convicted of the crime of conspiring to defraud Felix Lipcinski. The story disclosed by the record is old, but always new to some, as it was apparently to Mr. Lipcinski. Other versions of the same general scheme to defraud may be found detailed in People v. Shaw, 57 Mich. 403 (58 Am. Rep. 372), and People v. Watson, 75 Mich. 582. See also a compilation of like cases in 95 A. L. R. p. 1249 et seq.

Lipcinski owned a summer resort near Bitely, Michigan. On Friday, during the week before the opening of the deer season in 1937, a man then described as Armón…