State v. Gellis

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice StabeER.

The defendant Gellis was tried at the November, 1929, term of Court of General Sessions for Charleston County, upon an indictment charging him with obtaining property under false pretenses in violation of Section 64 of the Grim-, inal Code of 1922. When the case was called for' trial, the defendant made a motion to quash and at the same time filed a demurrer to the indictment, .on the ground that it charged him with no offense under the laws of the State. The Court overruled both the motion and the demurrer, whereupon counsel for…