BURNETTE v. STATE

7 Div. 210.

282 So.2d 70 (1973)

James Sanford BURNETTE v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

August 14, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Love, Love & Caldwell, Talladega, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and David W. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


CATES, Presiding Judge.

Obtaining money, some $5,000, by a false pretense: sentence, ten years.

A confederate of Burnette's, according to the tendencies of the State's evidence, baited a trap in East Tennessee. The bait was the chance to buy some thirty-nine color television receivers, console models, for $140 each.

This con man explained to his dupes that the sets had gotten into a warehouse to be sold under court order. Somehow the merchandise had...

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