State v. Balliet

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Ellis, J.:

The appellant was convicted in the court below of obtaining goods by means of falso pretenses, and appealed. It is charged in the information that the defendant, with the felonious intent to defraud John Truex and Thomas Truex of a stock of goods, made the following false representation to them:

“That a certain piece of land (describing it) was *708rich, level, fertile land, lying on the first bottom of the Arkansas river ; that said land was improved by a good house, a splendid well of water ; that forty acres were under cultivation, and that all…