Legal Opinion
Conner v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided November 25, 1918PublishedCited by 8 opinions
Appeal from Woodruff Circuit Court, Northern District; J. M. Jackson, Judge; 1. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant the verdict. No false pretense is proven, nor intent to defraud. 102 Ark. 452; 50 Id. 430. 2. The indictment is bad. Cases supra. The evidence is sufficient. Kirby’s Digest § 1689. There is no error in the instructions and the indictment states an offense within the. statute.
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
The defendant, J. B. Conner, prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of conviction for the crime of obtaining money under false pretenses. The body of the indictment is as follows:
“The grand jury for the county of Woodruit, tor the Northern District thereof, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse J. B. Conner of the crime of obtaining money under false pretense, committed as follows, viz.: The said J. B. Conner in the county, district and State aforesaid on first day of November, 1916, then and there unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously, falsely and fraudulently, did…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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