Huling

In an indictment consisting of five counts defendant and one F. E. Alford were jointly charged with the crime of obtaining money and property by false representations and pretenses. An information containing three counts also charged defendant with the commission of certain related offenses. A demurrer to the information was sustained as to the first count thereof. The third count of the information accused defendant Huling of the crime of conspiring with defendant Alford to defraud the city of Ontario of the sum of two thousand eight hundred dollars; and in the second count of the information, defendants Huling and Alford were charged with the offense of obtaining by false representations and pretenses the same money and property described in the charge of conspiracy mentioned in the third count, thereby defrauding the city of Ontario of the said sum of two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For the purposes of the trial the several charges contained in the indictment and the remaining charges in the information were consolidated. The jury returned the following verdict: “We, the jury in the above entitled action, find the defendant, John E. Huling, guilty of the crime of obtaining…