State v. Malone

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, C. J.:

The defendant, Dick Malone, was tried and convicted in the district court of Sedgwick County on three counts for the crimes of forgery, uttering and obtaining money by false pretenses, respectively, and, upon the overruling of his motion for a new trial, was sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary as an habitual criminal. This appeal followed.

At the outset it shoud be pointed out, that due to changes in personnel, this is a case where attorneys now representing the respective parties have to some extent reconstructed the record…