State v. Wolf

This case is here by certification. The single question is whether the information against defendant accusing him “of the crime of an attempt to commit the crime of grand larceny in the first degree” states facts constituting a public offense.

The substance of the accusation is that defendant, intending thereby feloniously to procure and appropriate to his own use $1,800 of •the money of his victim, one Luzaich, falsely represented to the latter that he, defendant, had such standing and influence with Walter F. Rhinowr, Federal Prohibition Administrator, that he could cause the said Rhinow to…