Wax v. State

The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the-court below of obtaining the sum of $536 from the Pierce State Bank under false pretenses, and was sentenced to the-penitentiary for the period of two years.

The first proposition discussed in the briefs is that the *19verdict is contrary to the evidence adduced on the trial of the case.. This point we might well refuse to notice, since the same is not raised by the petition in error, although the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction was properly brought to the attention of the trial court by the motion for a new trial filed by…