State v. Landis

Defendant was indicted on October 13, 1938, under section 109491 of the Code, which provides:

“Any person who, by any false pretense, or by any false token or counterfeit letter, with intent to defraud another, obtains from any person any personal property, or the signature of any person to any written instrument, the false making of which is forgery, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary nor less than three nor more than ten years.”

It is the theory of the state that the prosecutor, W. W. Shea, sold a lot of land in Davidson County to defendant for a recited consideration of…