Denham v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Certiorari, from Putnam superior court — Judge Lewis.- September 33, 1908. W. Denham, the prosecutor, testified: On March 13, 1907, Gen•eral Denham (the defendant) came to me to get some money. I told him I needed a dairy-hand, and- if he would contract to work with me I would advance him some on this contract.
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Certiorari, from Putnam superior court — Judge Lewis.- September 33, 1908. W. Denham, the prosecutor, testified: On March 13, 1907, Gen•eral Denham (the defendant) came to me to get some money. I told him I needed a dairy-hand, and- if he would contract to work with me I would advance him some on this contract. He then made this contract with me; that is, this contract was made, the money advanced, and the work to be done was in Putnam county, Georgia: he agreed to work with me from March 17, 1907, to December 31, 1907, at $13 per month and feed, as wages, the •said service to be as a…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, C. J.
1. On a trial for the offense of obtaining money upon • a fraudulent promise to perform labor, in violation of the act of August 15, 1903 (Acts of 1903, p. 90), evidence that the defendant had on a previous occasion fraudulently obtained money on another contract, the two contracts being in no wise connected or related, and the first act not in any way tending to illustrate the intent of the defendant in procuring the money under the second contract, was not admissible. Taylor v. State, ante, 237 (62 S. E. 1048) ; Clarke v. State, ante, 93 (62 S. E. 663).:2. The uncontroverted evidence for…
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