CATES, Judge.
Earnest appeals his conviction of false pretense in obtaining an agent's signature to a fire policy with intent to defraud. The trial judge sentenced him to five years' imprisonment.
The indictment, following the Code form (T. 15, § 259, No. 61), charged Earnest falsely pretended himself to be the owner of a tenant house near Hamilton.
The State's case was:
The house burned to the ground the night of June 14-15, 1957. The...
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