McLain v. State

Kirby, J.,

(after stating the facts). .Appellant insists that the court should have directed a verdict in his favor on the charge of obtaining “a thing of value”— medical services — under false pretenses, and we have concluded that the contention must be sustained. There is no testimony showing any representations whatever made, false or otherwise, to either of the physicians by appellant upon his pledging with their bookkeeper the alleged forged note as collateral to secure the payment of his notes to the firm and the individual member thereon given for closing his account due them for more…