CALDWELL v. COMMONWEALTH


194 S.E.2d 760 (1973)

213 Va. 582

Emmett CALDWELL v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 5, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Mullen, Christiansburg, for plaintiff in error.

Burnett Miller, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN and POFF, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Emmett Caldwell (defendant) waived trial by jury and was convicted by the trial court of larceny by false pretenses. He was sentenced to a term of twelve months in jail. We granted a writ of error.

The sole question here is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction.

The indictment charged that Caldwell did "unlawfully and feloniously obtain by false pretenses the endorsement signatures of Jack Mitchell and C. & J. Oil...

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