Stecher v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review a judgment of the municipal court of Brown county: N. J. Monahan, Judge. Criminal prosecution for obtaining money under false pretenses.
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Error to review a judgment of the municipal court of Brown county: N. J. Monahan, Judge. Criminal prosecution for obtaining money under false pretenses. The information alleged that the defendant did unlawfully, designedly, and falsely, and with intent to defraud obtain from Mrs. Anna Remich the power of attorney to mortgage certain property therein described, by. falsely representing to Mrs. Remich that he, the defendant, desired to sell said property, and that the said Mrs. Remich, at the request of the defendant, went to the defendant’s office and signed an instrument in writing which she…
1Opinion of the CourtRosenberry, J.
The first ground upon which a reversal is claimed is that the information did not charge an offense. It is claimed that the information does not allege what the false representations were; that it is not alleged that the defendant represented the power of attorney to be anything other than it was; and that the information did not allege that Mrs. Remich relied upon the false representations of the defendant.
Under the facts in this case it was very difficult to' describe and state with exactitude the representations which were in fact made, for the reason that they consisted largely of conduct…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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