State v. Post

An information was filed against the defendant in this action, the charging portion of which reads as follows:

“That the said William T. Post in the county of Pierce, in the state of Washington, on or about the 15th day of July, Nineteen hundred and 27 then and there being unlawfully and feloniously obtained from Tom Desmond, sheriff of Pierce county, Washington, possession of the sum of $881.04, lawful money of the United States of America, the property of Pierce county, Washington, being money from the liquor fines fund of said county, by color and aid of fraudulent and false representations…