Parker v. State

POWELL, Judge.

The plaintiff in error, Jim Parker, was tried before a jury in the district court of Pottawatomie County and convicted of a charge of attempting to obtain property by means of a confidence game, after former conviction of a felony, and the verdict provided for a penalty of twenty years confinement in the State Penitentiary. The record has been furnished at the expense of the State, and the appeal was filed without cost.

The information is quite lengthy, but it charges in substance that on or about June 27, 1957, in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, this defendant, Jim Parker, with…