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State v. Chingren

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided April 8, 1898PublishedCited by 23 opinions

Appeal from Webster District Court. — How. P. B. Bird-sall, Judge. The defendant was convicted of the crime of cheating by false pretenses, and from judgment sentencing him to imprisonment in the penitentiary for three years he áppeals. —

1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.

— On or about August 28, 1895, T. J. Con-ners was the owner of a stock of merchandise kept in a building of his father at Barnum, Webster county, and the wife of the defendant was the owner of the west one-half of the northwest one-quarter of section 8, in township 90 N., of range 34 W of fifth P. M., in Poco-hontas county, subject to a mortgage of one thousand dollars. The defendant, acting for his. wife, exchanged this land, at a valuation of two thousand dollars, to Con-ners for the merchandise at the valuation of one thousand, two hundred dollars, and the building and lot were kept at one…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. MeserveMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
  2. State v. WatsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1897
  3. Beasley v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
  4. State v. RowSupreme Court of Iowa · 1890
  5. State v. MillsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1840

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. People v. MarshCalifornia Supreme Court · 1962
  2. State v. RutledgeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1951
  3. State v. BrandenbergerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1911
  4. State v. BurrisSupreme Court of Iowa · 1922
  5. State v. KnoxSupreme Court of Iowa · 1945

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