Jones v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner-—

Affirming.

The appeal is by G-ordon Jones from a judgment sentencing him to five years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charges Jones, Harold M. Cordell, and John M. Winfrey, alias R. S. Merten, with the crime of confederating and banding together for the purpose of doing a felonious act (sec. 1241a-l, Kentucky Stats.), namely, to obtain property from another by false pretenses with the intention of committing a fraud, and that such object was accomplished. Sec. 1208, Kentucky Stats. The appellant suggests that the indictment is-defective because…