Burnette v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Obtaining money, some $5,000, by a false pretense: sentence, ten years.

A confederate of Burnette’s, according to the tendencies of the State’s evidence, baited a trap in East Tennessee. The bait was the chance to buy some thirty-nine color television receivers, console models, for $140 each.

This con man explained to his dupes that the sets had gotten into a warehouse to be sold under court order. Somehow the merchandise had been infected because of a truck driver’s derelictions. The purchase price had to be cash because there was a “split” somewhere along the line.

Burnet…