State v. Seipel

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The defendant was tried and convicted of a charge of obtaining money under false pretences, and sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for twelve months,- and from that verdict and sentence, he prosecutes this appeal.

The charge with which the defendant stands indicted was, for securing fifty dollars in currency on his check on the State National Bank of New Iberia; and the grounds upon which his counsel rely for a reversal of the sentence, are, in substance; (1) That the indictment does not charge that the defendant claimed to…