State v. Bowdry

Bennett Warren Bowdry appeals from a judgment imposing a sentence of two years' imprisonment for obtaining a $1543.76 check by means of false pretenses. He presents issues respecting the indictment, the evidence, argument and the instructions.

I. The indictment describes the parties, A.G. Edwards Sons and Soffer, as their agent, and alleges that appellant, with felonious intent to defraud A.G. Edwards Sons, represented to Soffer that appellant had met one Roth; that Roth had referred appellant to Soffer, etc.; that appellant had two $1,000 New York Central Railroad Company bonds which…