Hinckle v. State

Wolcott, Justice (for the majority of the Court).

This is an appeal from a sentence of seven years’ imprisonment imposed after a plea of guilty to an information charging the obtaining of money under false pretenses, and also from an order denying a petition under' Criminal Rule 35 Del. C. for a reduction of sentence.

The prisoner was first indicted for the crime of forgery of a check in the amount of $62.50. By 11 Del. C. § 543, the maximum permissible sentence for the crime of forgery, a felony, is a fine of $2,000.00 and imprisonment for five years.

After his arraignment on the forgery charge…