Stumpff v. People

Defendant was convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses, and was sentenced to the penitentiary. Several fales representations and pretenses are set forth in the information. The only one relied on and concerning which alone there was evidence, is that, in selling to the prosecuting witness Johnson a cow defendant obtained from the purchaser $30 in money by falsely representing that the animal.was free from all encumbrances whatsoever, whereas there was a valid existing chattel mortgage upon it. A motion to quash was filed, based upon the contention that the informa*203tion was too…