Haley v. State

Two oases heard together on indictments charging the plaintiff in error with obtaining money by false pretenses, the jury returning verdicts of guilty and fixing the punishment at three years in each case.

The indictments were predicated upon section 6568 of Shannon’s Annotated Code, which is as follows:

“Every person, who, by any false pretense, or by any false token or counterfeit letter, with intent to defraud another, obtains from any person any personal property, or the signature of any person to any written instrument, the false making of which is forgery, shall, on conviction, be…