Small v. State

— Appellant was charged by indictment, under §2588 Burns ' 1914, Acts 1907 p. 481, with the offense of obtaining money by false pretenses. The indictment alleged, in substance, that at, etc., on, etc., the appellant unlawfully', falsely, feloniously and knowingly pretended to “Charles L. Riddle and C. E. Dunham (whose Christian name is to the grand jurors ■unknown),” with intent by such false pretense to cheat and defraud them, and for the purpose of obtaining from them $200, that he (the appellant) was the absolute and sole owner of a certain formula for the manufacture of a varnish…