Johnson v. State

Indictment against George H. Johnson for obtaining goods by false pretenses. Trial, conviction, and sentence to the state prison.

The indictment appears to have been found in the Montgomery Circuit Court, within the jurisdiction of which the offense is alleged to have been committed. The trial was in the Boone Circuit Court.

R. L. Walpole, D. Wallace, and J. Cobwn, for appellant. W. P. Fishback, for the state.

There are two fatal defects appearing in the record—

1. The indictment is bad. The pretense alleged is, that Johnson presented and offered to one William H. Nicholson some of Hamer’s…