State v. Paul
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Indictment, charging that the defendant at, etc., on the 20th of April, 1874, unlawfully, knowingly and designedly did falsely pro-tend to one William W. Edwards of said Waterville, that be, the said Noah S. Paul, then and there owned a valuable piece of timber laud situated in Albion in said county, and tbat the same piece of land contained about one hundred acres in quantity, and that the same was well wooded and well timbered and that there was upon said…
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On exceptions. Indictment, charging that the defendant at, etc., on the 20th of April, 1874, unlawfully, knowingly and designedly did falsely pro-tend to one William W. Edwards of said Waterville, that be, the said Noah S. Paul, then and there owned a valuable piece of timber laud situated in Albion in said county, and tbat the same piece of land contained about one hundred acres in quantity, and that the same was well wooded and well timbered and that there was upon said land a growth of hard and soft wood and hemlock bark, all of which was very valuable, and that the whole tract of said…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
The defendant is accused of obtaining money by false pretenses. lie demurred to the indictment. It alleges that he represented that a parcel of land contained “ about ” one hundred acres, when in fact it did not contain one hundred acres. But, in criminal pleading, one hundred acres and about one hundred acres are not to be regarded as the same thing. The indictment also alleges that the respondent represented the land to be well wooded and well timbered and to have upon it a valuable growth of hard and soft wood and hemlock bark, and that the land was worth one thousand dollars, and that…
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