Martins v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Carbon County; Hon. David H. Craig, Judge. Romon Martins was charged upon information, tried and convicted of the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses, and prosecuted error. The information and material facts are set out in the opinion. A check indorsed in blank by the payee is payable to the bearer.
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Error to the District Court, Carbon County; Hon. David H. Craig, Judge. Romon Martins was charged upon information, tried and convicted of the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses, and prosecuted error. The information and material facts are set out in the opinion. A check indorsed in blank by the payee is payable to the bearer. (Laws 1905, Sec. 9, p. 41.) The check in question was, therefore, negotiable by delivery, and Mayer or Freedman, his principal, became the owner and holder thereof, and having obtained a good title to the check was not defrauded. (Laws 1905, Sec. 30, p. 44.) To…
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, Justice;.
The plaintiff in error was charged by information, tried and convicted of the crime of obtaining money under false pretenses. Having made his motion for a new trial and the court having denied the same, he brings his case here on error.
The plaintiff in error offered no evidence and on the completion of the State’s testimony he tpoved the court to direct the jury to acquit because of the insufficiency of the evidence to support a verdict of guilty, and one of the grounds embraced in the motion for a new trial is that the verdict of the jury is contrary to the evidence. Both…
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