Willis v. State

Charles M. Willis, a building contractor, of Montgomery County, was convicted by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County of obtaining four loads of concrete from Maloney Concrete Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation, by false pretense. He has appealed here from the judgment of conviction.

The indictment charged that on May 12, 1953, defenddant, by a false pretense made to Lewis Armstrong, which was not “a mere promise for future payment not intended to be performed,” obtained from Maloney Concrete Company, Inc., 20 cubic yards of concrete of the value of $285.60, the property of that…