Nicholas v. State

After a non-jury trial before Judge Harlan in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, the appellant, Horace Nicholas, was convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses under one indictment and of larceny under another and was sentenced to imprisonment. This appeal followed.

According to the State’s evidence in the false pretense case, appellant informed one Hemsley that he had some whiskey which he wished to sell, and Hemsley took him to the home of a friend, the complaining witness, Joseph Chalmers, Jr., who agreed to buy three cases for $45.00. Appellant told Chalmers the whiskey was located at a…