Smith v. State

The defendant was convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of obtaining money by false pretenses in violation of Article 27, Section 140, Code (1957), and sentenced to ten years in the Maryland Penitentiary. He appeals from that judgment.

It was established by the evidence that the victim, Mrs. Clifford Horsman, a widow of six months duration, placed an advertisement in The Sunday Sun, a Baltimore City newspaper, offering a room for rent to a gentleman. On the following Monday evening she received a telephone call from a man who identified himself as Thomas Frame inquiring if the room had…