State v. Bean

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, J.:

W. T. Bean was charged in the district court of Rice County on an information containing two counts: the first count charged him with the theft of 65 sacks of cement worth more than $20; the second count charged him with cheating and defrauding a Mrs. Minnie Patterson, Lyons, Kansas, an elderly woman, by means of false pretense. Following trial and a verdict of guilty on both counts he appealed to this court, which reversed the judgment of conviction, and directed that he be granted a new trial (State v. Bean, 179 Kan. 373, 295 P. 2d 600).…