State v. Bingham
Decision Date | 09 February 1909 |
Citation | 99 P. 735,51 Wash. 616 |
Parties | STATE v. BINGHAM. |
Court | Washington Supreme Court |
Appeal from Superior Court, Walla Walla County; Thos. H. Brents Judge.
William C. Bingham was convicted of false pretenses, and he appeals. Reversed, with directions to dismiss.
Cain & Hurspool, for appellant.
Otto B Rupp and John H. McDonald, for the State.
An information was filed in the court below charging the defendant with the crime of obtaining money under false pretenses, committed as follows: ' The defendant was convicted before a jury, and from the judgment and sentence of the court this appeal is prosecuted.
The sufficiency of the testimony to sustain the conviction is the only question presented by the appeal. It appears that on the 6th day of January, 1908, the appellant sold a stove, which he had theretofore purchased under contract and not paid for to L. Youdovitch & Co., junk dealers of Walla Walla, for the sum of $12. The purchase...
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