Commonwealth v. Moore
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of .Quarter Sessions of Delaware county: Of January Term 1882] No. 71. Indictment of Robert M. Moore, for cheating by false pretences. Plea; not guilty.
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Certiorari to the Court of .Quarter Sessions of Delaware county: Of January Term 1882] No. 71. Indictment of Robert M. Moore, for cheating by false pretences. Plea; not guilty. The first count of the indictment charged that the defendant, “ unlawfully and wickedly devising and intending to cheat and defraud Horace P. Green of his goods, moneys, &c. did, then and there represent to the said Horace P. Green, that he, tlie said Pobert M. Moore, would be unable to pay, at maturity, a certain promissory note, for the payment of three hundred and fifty dollars, drawn by the said Pobert M. Moore to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The only question presented by this record is, whether the indictment sets forth an indictable offence. ' It contains two counts, in each of which the ¡defendant below is charged with cheating by false pretences. The particular act alleged was the procuring of the prosecutor’s endorsement of the defendant’s promissory note, and the false pretence charged consisted in his representing to the prosecutor that he would use the note so endorsed to take up and cancel another note of the same amount then about maturing, and upon which the prosecutor was liable as endorser. In other words the note…
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