Barker v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
599 P.2d 1349 (1979)
Relevant factsFree
Barker (defendant) arranged for his bank to prepare a customer's draft representing a $30,000 wire from a Montana bank where he had no actual account, then cashed a $500 check against that supposedly incoming money before the bank verified the deposit; the Montana draft was later returned unpaid. Barker was convicted of obtaining property by false pretenses and argued on appeal that Wyoming's more specific insufficient-funds statute should have governed instead, precluding his conviction under the false-pretenses statute.
IssueFree
Whether, in Wyoming, the state's insufficient-funds statute and its false-pretenses statute govern different categories of crimes.