Williams v. State

The indictment in this case was in two counts. The first count was based on sec. 26, 2 G. & H. 445», which reads as follows :

*368"Every person who shall falsely personate or represent another, and in such assumed character shall receive any property intended to be delivered to the party so personated, with intent to convert the same to his own use, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and shall suffer the punishment inflicted on those guilty of grand or petit larceny, according to the value of the property so received.’5 ,,

The second count was for grand larceny, in the proper form, under sec. 19, 2…