Commonwealth v. Burton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, found and returned August 10, 1901, under St. 1899, c. 409, § 24, (R. L. c. 218, § 40,) for larceny in obtaining by false pretences the sum of $2,500 from the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company in settlement of a claim for damages from a collision on the road of that company.
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Indictment, found and returned August 10, 1901, under St. 1899, c. 409, § 24, (R. L. c. 218, § 40,) for larceny in obtaining by false pretences the sum of $2,500 from the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company in settlement of a claim for damages from a collision on the road of that company. In the Superior Court the defendant was tried before Bell, J., and was found guilty on November 5, 1902. The defendant alleged exceptions, which were allowed by the judge on February 24,1903. There also was pending a motion for a new trial, and on March 3, 1903, the judge declared his action…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This is an indictment for larceny which, by our criminal law practice act, includes the common law offence of obtaining money by false pretences. R. L. c. 218, § 40. At the trial the government undertook to prove the indictment by showing that the prisoner had obtained $2,500 from the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company by false pretences. On the evidence introduced at the trial the jury were warranted in finding these to be the facts of the case : The prisoner was a passenger on a train leaving Chicago for Boston, at 2 p. M. on Saturday, April 20. When the train was just east…
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