State v. Johnson

The defendant Louis Woods was convicted of the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses and appeals.

In February 1964, the defendant Woods accompanied by Charles E. Johnson went to the home of a Miss Tooley in Portland. They told Miss Tooley they were “termite exterminators.” She told them she didn’t need anything like that, but they said they wanted to look at the house anyway. Johnson looked in the attic for termites and when he came down he brought with him a piece of wood, a two-by-four about nine inches long, with termites in it and displayed it to her. Miss Tooley then told them to go…