Hinman v. State

Appellant having been convicted in the lower court of obtaining money under false pretenses and sentenced to serve a term of one year in the state penitentiary prosecutes an appeal here.

The facts necessary to state are substantially as follows : Some time prior to April 1, 1936, Hinman had operated a business known as the Carthage Creamery Company at Carthage, Miss., but the business had been finan cially unsuccessful and had terminated. About April 1st he received a check drawn by the David Spruks Company of Scranton, Pa., on the Third National Bank of that city, dated March 30, 1936, for…