State v. Price

Ritz, Judge:

Rollin R. Price was convicted in the circuit court of Randolph countjr of procuring a certain lot of cattle by giving a check therefor without having sufficient funds to meet the same, in violation of § 34 of ch. 145 of the Code, and to a judgment sentencing him to be confined in the penitentiary he prosecutes this writ of error.

For many years the defendant was extensively engaged in the business of buying and selling cattle through a number of adjoining counties of the state. In the year 1915 he arranged to purchase from Mrs. Pettit, the prosecuting wit*73ness, twenty-eight bead of…