Owen v. State

Arthur Owen, plaintiff in error, hereinafter designated the defendant, was on September 2, 1919, convicted of obtaining money from Lot Ravenscroft by false pretense, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the county jail for a term of six months and to pay a fine of $1,000.

Lot Ravenscroft was the president of the Sitka State Bank at Sitka, Kan. Ravenscroft claims that in June, 1918, defendant came to him in his bank and represented to him that defendant was the owner of 400! head of cattle in Harper county, Okla., and that he was the owner of a ranch there, containing" 960 acres,…