State v. Stephenson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, 0. J.:

In an information containing six counts J. G. Stephenson was charged with obtaining goods from the H. D. Lee Mercantile Company by means of false pretenses. On the trial he was found guilty of five of the charges, but a motion in arrest of judgment was sustained as to the finding on four of the,counts. Upon the remaining count judgment was rendered, sentencing him to imprisonment at hard labor in the state penitentiary, without fixing the limit or duration of the same. Complaint is made here of the character of the proof offered by the…