Commonwealth v. Johnson

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Miller

Reversing.

*728The grand jury of Bell county returned an indictment charging the appellee with the crime of unlawfully obtaining money from one person by false pretenses, with the intent to perpetrate a fraud upon a third person.

Omitting the formal parts, the indictment reads as follows:

“The said Bob Johnson on the 8th day of October, 1914, and before the finding of this indictment and in the county and State aforesaid, did unlawfully, wilfully and with the felonious intent to perpetrate a fraud on Bascom Saylor, state, pretend and represent to the Knabb…