Cook v. State

The defendant was tried and convicted for obtaining money under false pretenses under the provisions of section 6920 of the Code of 1907. The allegation, in varying forms in different counts of the indictment, was, in substance that he did falsely pretend to V. D. Jones, with intent to defraud, that he owned, free of incumbrance, to wit, 290 acres of land, and by means of such false pretense obtained from the said V. D. Jones money in an amount such that he would be guilty of a felony.

As said by Mr. Justice Head in the opinion in the case of Meek v. State, 117 Ala. 116, 23 So. 155:

“If the…