Soapes v State

Soapes v State
1926 OK CR 124
245 P. 1115
33 Okl.Cr. 433
Decided: 03/25/1926
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from District Court, Stephens County; M.W. Pugh, Judge.

Thomas J. Soapes, convicted of obtaining property by false pretenses, appeals. Appeal dismissed.

Womack, Brown & Cund, for plaintiff in error.

The Attorney General and Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

PER CURIAM. Appellant, Thomas J. Soapes, was prosecuted by information in the district court of Stephens county for the crime of obtaining property by false pretenses, alleged to have been committed in said county July 7, 1924, by obtaining by means of a trick and deception, from C.C. Wright, a new Ford car, of the value of $438, and in accordance with the verdict of the jury he was on October 24, 1924, sentenced to pay a fine of $250 and the costs. From the judgment he appealed, by filing in this court, February 27, 1925, a petition in error, with a transcript of the record proper attached, and without a transcipt of the testimony in the case. No brief has been filed and no appearance made on behalf of appellant in this court. When called for final submission, the Attorney General moved to affirm the judgment or dismiss the appeal for failure to prosecute the same. We have examined the record, and find that the