The People v. Gould

Mr. Chiee Justice Stone,

dissenting:

I do not concur in the majority opinion. It changes the rule in this State governing the crime of confidence game. Under the rule as it existed when this case was tried, the accused were proved guilty by an abundance of evidence. This is a flagrant case. This is no time to change the rule, even if there were valid arguments for such change. The majority opinion has so constricted the scope of the confidence game statute as largely to nullify it. There is, to be sure, a difference between obtaining money by false pretense and obtaining the same by means and…