Beck v. State

Plaintiffs in error, hereinafter called defendants, were jointly indicted and convicted of obtaining money under false pretenses and each was sentenced to serve three years in the State Penitentiary.

The first question raised by the assignments which we will dispose of is that the evidence preponderates against the verdict arid judgment below. The State’s proof presents a picture of a very clever scheme executed by these three defendants by which the prosecutor, Ike L. Moore, was bilked of $7,000 in money. Beck, operating under the alias of L. E. Berry, initiated the scheme by contacting Moore…