State v. Fluhart

The appellants, defendants, were convicted of the crime of grand larceny by obtaining money by false pretenses, and have appealed.

The information. charges that, on or about April 5, 1921, in King county, Washington, the appellants fraudulently and feloniously represented to one Gus Anderson that, they were the owners of a sawmill at Offut Lake, in Thurston county, free from incum-brances ; that it was in operation by them at that time and was making money; that they were engaged in forming a new corporation to, purchase the mill and additional equipment; that Gus Anderson, believing the false…