State v. Scott

230 S.W.2d 764 (1950)

STATE

v.

SCOTT.

No. 41780.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

June 13, 1950.

E. L. Redman, Albany, for appellant.

J. E. Taylor, Attorney General, Julian L. O'Malley, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

CONKLING, Judge.

Defendant-appellant, John A. Scott, was convicted of obtaining money, with intent to cheat and defraud, by giving a check drawn upon a bank in which he knew he had no funds, in violation of Rev.Stat.Mo.1939, Sec. 4694, Mo.R.S.A. Upon the jury's verdict he was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary. He thereupon appealed.

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