State v. Govorko

OPINION

KRUCKER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted on ten counts of obtaining or attempting to obtain money or property by false pretenses in violation of A.R.S. § 13-312 (Cum.Supp.1973) and was convicted on four of the original ten counts (5, 7, 9 and 10). The facts of the case are as follows.

Under Count Five, appellant was charged with attempting to obtain property from Patio Brick by means of false or fraudulent misrepresentations. In the early summer of 1973, a man, who identified himself as John Shepard, contacted Gerald McCaslin, the manager of Patio Brick, by phone in regard to advertising…