White v. People

Sally White, plaintiff in error here and defendant *366below, was convicted of a violation of our confidence game statute (section 222, chapter 48, ’35 C.S.A.) and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. She is here by writ of error, seeking a reversal of the judgment.

The record discloses that on the evening of September 20, 1951, defendant first contacted the wife of one Virgil A. Van Dyke, the operator of a motel in Grand Junction, Colorado, and later the husband himself, telling them that she was on her way from Californiá to Denver, Colorado, for the purpose of seeing her husband, a wounded…