37 Kan. 222 | Kan. | 1887
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Charles Metsch was prosecuted in the district court of Ellsworth county, upon a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses from the State Savings Association of Ellsworth, and was convicted. The information charged that he obtained $246.80 from the association upon the security given by chattel mortgages upon one bay horse ten years old, three cows, one bay horse five years old, one bay gelding three years old, one bay gelding four years old, one bay horse seven years old, one bay horse nine years old, one sorrel mare eight
We think the testimony, viewed in the most favorable light for the prosecution, falls far short of justifying the conviction, and hence the judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded.