Moore v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Indictment for Obtaining Money by False Pretenses.—Error to the Criminal Court of Cook County. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1900.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. .Presiding Justice Shepard
delivered the opinion of the court.
Plaintiff in error was indicted, tried and convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses. The indictment, consisting of one count, charged substantially that on December 8, 1898, in Cook county, defendant Moore falsely represented to Robert Strahorn, president of StrahornHutton-Evans Commission Company, a corporation, that he had purchased 104 cattle from Becker & Degan of South Omaha, Neb.—that he owned them—that the cattle were four and a half miles north and west of Salem, Neb., with intent to obtain from said commission…
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