Bridge v. People

Plaintiff in error was convicted of obtaining a certain sum of money from another by means of the confidence *320game, and sentenced to the penitentiary. He brings the cause here for review upon the sole ground that the information fails to charge any offense under the law. The alleged insufficiency consists in the omission of the word “unlawfully” before the word “feloniously” in the information. Section 1783, R. S. 1908, creates and defines the offense, and § 1784 declares that it shall be a sufficient description of the offense to charge that the accused did, on etc., “unlawfully and…