Pippin v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Copiah county. Hon. D. M. Miller, Judge. J. H. Pippin wag convicted of obtaining money or goods by false pretenses, and he appeals. 1. The indictment- alleges Pippin obtained the money of Rempe by executing to him0, and in his favor a deed of trust upon certain mules, etc. The deed of trust offered in evidence was one executed in favor of F. Rempe & Son rather than in favor of E. IT. Rempe.
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Appeal from circuit court, Copiah county. Hon. D. M. Miller, Judge. J. H. Pippin wag convicted of obtaining money or goods by false pretenses, and he appeals. 1. The indictment- alleges Pippin obtained the money of Rempe by executing to him0, and in his favor a deed of trust upon certain mules, etc. The deed of trust offered in evidence was one executed in favor of F. Rempe & Son rather than in favor of E. IT. Rempe. The rule is that, if what is necessary in the allegation is made unnecessarily minute in description, the proof must satisfy the description as well as the main part, since the…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The appellant was indicted for wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously designing then and there to cheat and defraud E. H. Rempe of his moneys, goods, wares, merchandise, and property by false pretenses, and by pretending to the said E. H. Rempe that the appellant, J. H. Pippin, then and there was the owner of certain mules described in the indictment, and by executing a deed of trust upon such mules claimed then to be in his possession, and did secure from the said Rempe seven hundred fifty dollars; it being alleged that the appellant did not then and there own said mules or any of them, and…
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