Jackson v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. Plaintiff was tried in the Criminal Court of Cook county, on an indictment for obtaining money under false pretenses. The false pretenses were alleged to have been made in the sale of a certain horse to the prosecuting witnesses.
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Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. Plaintiff was tried in the Criminal Court of Cook county, on an indictment for obtaining money under false pretenses. The false pretenses were alleged to have been made in the sale of a certain horse to the prosecuting witnesses. On the trial in his opening statement to the jury, the assistant state’s attorney, among other things, said: “This ease is important, not so much because of the amount involved, hut because it will appear in the proof of this case, that there are certain prescribed methods of men…
1Opinion of the CourtMoran, J.
If false pretenses are made with intent to cheat and defraud in the sale of a horse and they are an inducing cause of the purchase, the fact that there is a warranty, on which a civil remedy may be based, will not screen the person making them from the consequences attaching ^ to the act of obtaining money or property by false pretenses.
The promise in the written warranty, to take back the horse and refund the money, may, it is true, have an influence and operate on the mind of the purchaser, but, if the false representation of matters of fact contained in the writing or in'the colloquy,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. JacksonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
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- Austin v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1882
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3Cited by8 opinions
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