Pettijohn v. State

Plaintiff in error, Roy Pettijohn, was convicted in the district court for Hitchcock County of the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses. He was sentenced to be imprisoned in 'the penitentiary for a period of one year. He appeals from that conviction.

The information charges: That Roy Pettijohn did, on the 23rd day of July 1945, knowingly and falsely represent to Henry P. Reese, intending thereby to unlawfully and fraudulently cheat and defraud him, that he, Roy Pettijohn, had secured a purchaser in the person of Albert Meints for the real estate of Henry P. Reese, pursuant to a contract…