State v. King
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Indictment, for obtaining money by false pretences. The indictment charged that the respondent, at Concord, on the 12th day of January, 1892, “with force and arms, with intent to cheat and defraud one Erzemia Sawyer, did falsely and fraudulently represent to said Erzemia Sawyer that he, the said King, was a doctor of medicine, and for the sum of three dollars and fifty cents he would furnish her with medicine which he would bring the next morning, by means of which false and…
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Indictment, for obtaining money by false pretences. The indictment charged that the respondent, at Concord, on the 12th day of January, 1892, “with force and arms, with intent to cheat and defraud one Erzemia Sawyer, did falsely and fraudulently represent to said Erzemia Sawyer that he, the said King, was a doctor of medicine, and for the sum of three dollars and fifty cents he would furnish her with medicine which he would bring the next morning, by means of which false and fraudulent pretences he, the said King, did then and there wrongfully and fraudulently obtain from the said Erzemia…
1Opinion of the Court
• Blodgett, J.
This proceeding is founded upon s. 1, c. 273, Pub. Stats., which provided “ If any person, with intent to cheat and defraud, shall, by personating or representing another, or by means of any false pretence or false token, counterfeit letters, or other false means, wrongfully obtain any money or other property . . . he shall be fined . . . or be imprisoned ” as therein specified.
Under this statute four things are necessary to constitute the offence described: First, there must be an intent to defraud; second, there must be a false pretence; third, the property of another must be…
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- State v. MillsSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1840
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