Blakeney v. State

The appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted in the Circuit Court of Scott County for obtaining property under false pretenses, to-wit: A truck load of cattle consisting of some eighteen to twenty head, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of two years. The indictment was returned at the February, 1952 term of the court, charging the offense to have been committed on the--day of December, 1947. The evidence on the issue of appellant’s guilt or innocence was conflicting. The evidence on behalf of the state, which the jury were warranted in accepting, and which…