Mortensen v. State

Appellant was tried on an information filed by the prosecuting attorney charging him with the crime of obtaining $3,000 from the Arkansas Trust Company through false pretenses. He was convicted, given a sentence of five years in the penitentiary, and has appealed.

The information was defective in that it did not recite the false pretenses employed in obtaining the money, and prior to Initiated Act No. 3, would have been demurrable on that account.

Appellant filed a demurrer to the information, which was overruled, after which he filed a motion to require the filing of a bill of particulars,…