State v. Binette

On exceptions. A demurrer to an indictment was overruled by the justice below. The indictment, intended to charge the crime of cheating by false pretenses (omitting the formal portions thereof), employs the following language:

“(The respondent) did falsely pretend to one, Lucien M. Bourque, that he, the said Raoul J. Binette, the duly elected and qualified City Clerk of the City of Biddeford, Maine, for the year 1960, had, through the color of his office, been one of the persons who had worked very hard to get the new Biddeford High School project started, and that he would like to have…