State v. Mason
Montana Supreme Court
Appeals from District Court, Deer Lodge County; Geo. B. Winston, Judge. Jack Mason was convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses, denied a new trial, and appeals from the judgment and the order denying a new trial. The information is insufficient.
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Appeals from District Court, Deer Lodge County; Geo. B. Winston, Judge. Jack Mason was convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses, denied a new trial, and appeals from the judgment and the order denying a new trial. The information is insufficient. The method of obtaining the money, that is, that the money was obtained as a loan and that a note was given for the sum of ten thousand dollars, is not shown; in other words, the information does not contain “a statement of the facts constituting the offense, in ordinary and concise language, in such a manner as to enable a person of common…
1Opinion of the Court
MR. COMMISSIONER HORSEY
prepared the opinion for the court.
The defendant, Jack Mason, was convicted of the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses under the provisions of section 8683 of the Revised Codes of 1907, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary. From the judgment of conviction and from an order denying his motion for a new trial defendant appeals.
The facts developed by the state at the trial disclose that the defendant appeared at the banking-room of the Daly Bank & Trust Company of Anaconda, Montana, on or about the fifteenth day of January, 1921, and in a…
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