State v. Gulbrandsen

Loring, Chief Justice.

This is a criminal prosecution in which defendant, a woman, is charged with first degree grand larceny. She is alleged to have unlawfully obtained $6,000 from one Gustaf A. Karlson by means of false and fraudulent representations and pretenses. The state sought to establish that defendant, Miss Gudrun Gulbrandsen, a co-worker of Karlson, upon discovering that he had savings of approximately $6,000, represented to him that she could obtain a $16,000 home for about $6,000. Karlson testified that he paid the $6,000 to defendant in two cash installments, and the state…