COIL, Commissioner.
Defendant was convicted under the "confidence game" statute, Section 561.450 (all references to sections are to RSMo 1949 and V.A.M.S.) and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. On this appeal he first contends that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for judgment of acquittal at the close of all the evidence for the assigned reason that the state failed to make a submissible case under Section 561.450.
That contention...
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