Haines v. Territory
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to district court. Alanson L. Haines, William W. Russell, John Faulds, and A. W. Branner were indicted for obtaining goods from Oscar Walker by false pretenses, and convicted. They assign error. Indictment for obtaining property on false pretenses.
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Error to district court. Alanson L. Haines, William W. Russell, John Faulds, and A. W. Branner were indicted for obtaining goods from Oscar Walker by false pretenses, and convicted. They assign error. Indictment for obtaining property on false pretenses. The indictment, omitting the introductory part, proceeds as fol-iows: “Alanson L. Haines, William W. Russell, John Faulds, and A. W. Branner, whose first and Christian name is to the jurors aforesaid unknown, late of the county aforesaid, on the twenty-third day of April,in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, at…
1Opinion of the Court
Maginnis, • C. J.
Plaintiffs in error moved below to quash the indictment, which motion was overruled, and exception taken. They then interposed a demurrer to the indictment, which was overruled. These are the first t wo and principal assignments of error.
The first question suggested by the motion and demurrer grows out of a misapprehension as to the scope and effect of section 138 of thé crimes act in the Compiled Laws of 1876. Section 139 of that act, as amended March 5, 1884, is substantially the statute of 7 & 8 Geo. 1Y.; and it seems to be conceded that had section 138 not been enacted,…
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