State v. Binette

By indictment the respondent has been accused of the crime of cheating by false pretenses. R. S. (1954), c. 133, § 11. He demurred to the indictment. The trial justice overruled the demurrer. Respondent excepts to that ruling.

The indictment in presently essential text reads as follows: (partition of clauses, ours)

“----that Raoul J. Binette---feloniously designedly and with an intent to defraud, did falsely pretend to one LUCIEN M. BOURQUE, that he, the said Raoul J. Binette,---Clerk of the City ---had through the color of his office, been one of the persons who had worked very hard to get the…