Miller v. People

This is an application for supersedeas. The sole question is the sufficiency of the information. The prosecutor was induced by the false representations of the defendant to endorse a check for $33.95, which subsequently he, as endorser, was compelled to pay to the holder for value.

Section 1849 of the Revised Statutes of 1908 defines false pretenses as follows:

“If any person or persons shall knowingly and designedly; by any false pretense or pretenses, obtain from any other person or persons any chose in action, money, goods, wares, chattels, effects, or other valuable thing whatever, with…