Revley

Defendants appeal from a judgment of conviction of the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses and from an order denying their motion for' a new trial.

The information, in effect, charged that the defendants, with intent then and there to cheat and defrand one Olive A. Stowell, did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously pretend and represent to the said Olive A. Stowell that the defendants were the authorized agents of and for the J. B. Barrett Company of San Francisco, and that the defendants were purchasing oil stock for and on account, and as agents of the said J. B. Barrett Company, which said company was represented as being an established and responsible brokerage house, and that the said company, through the defendants, was acquiring a corner and controlling interest in certain oil stocks owned by the said Olive A. Stowell, to wit: certain shares in the Hamilton No. 3 oil well of the Hamilton Oil Syndicate; that the defendants did then and there pretend and represent to the said Olive A. Stowell that if she would give to defendants twelve shares of such capital stock owned by her and the further sum of #350, the defendants would, through and on account of the said J. B.…