Bevins v. People

Plaintiff in error will be referred to as the defendant as he appeared in the trial court.

He was convicted by a jury in Garfield County of feloniously and unlawfully obtaining the sum of $20.00 from a business establishment in Glen wood Springs “by means and by use of the confidence game.” Motion for new trial was denied and defendant sentenced to a term of not less than eight nor more than fifteen years in the state penitentiary. Defendant seeks reversal of his conviction, and assigns six grounds of error. Since we are persuaded that the court erred in refusing to direct a verdict of not…