Summons v. State

At the same time the appeal of David H. Summons from the judgment of the Circuit Court for Carroll County in the case considered in the preceding opinion (ante, 382) was heard, his other appeal from a sentence of the same court for a similar crime was argued. The questions presented in the second case are sufficiently different to require separate treatment. As in the case first considered, Summons was indicted on two counts which charged him with the crimes of false pretenses and of a conspiracy to defraud. He was tried before the court, acquitted of a conspiracy to defraud, but convicted of…