People v. Umerska

Witches: "Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” Macbeth, Act IV, Scene one.

Following a nonjury trial before Circuit Judge Irwin H. Burdick, defendant was found guilty, as charged, of obtaining money under false pretenses, MCL 750.218; MSA 28.415. On December 6, 1977, defendant was sentenced to probation for two years and ordered to pay $4,500 restitution to the complainant, Anna Groves.

The central issue at trial was whether a check for $4,500 given to defendant by Anna Groves on December 30, 1976, was a down payment on defendant’s mobile home which had been up for…