Roll v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was sentenced to the penitentiary for five to seven years on a verdict of guilty of obtaining property by means of a confidence game. To review that judgment he sues out this writ and in support of it contends: (1) The thing obtained by the acts charged and relied upon was not property; (2) it was not obtained by a confidence game; (3) evidence of other transactions was improperly admitted; (4) error was committed in the cross-examination of defendant; (5) certain instructions requested by defendant were erroneously refused.

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