Legal Opinion
State v. Pettviel
Washington Supreme Court
Decided January 12, 1918No. 14224Published
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Mackintosh, J., entered April 22, 1916, upon a trial and conviction of grand larceny.
1Opinion of the CourtMorris, J.
Appeal from a conviction of grand larceny. The error alleged is in the charge to the jury. The information was laid under Rem. Code, § 2601, providing, so far as is here material, that:
“Every person who, with intent to deprive or defraud the owner thereof . . . (2) Shall obtain from the owner or another the possession of or title to any property, real or personal, . . . . by color or aid of any fraudulent or false representation, personation or pretense . . . steals such property and shall be guilty of larceny.”
The information charged that the accused “did then and there wilfully, designedly,…
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