Braxton v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Accusation of cheating and swindling. Before Judge Hodges, City court of Macon. April 22, 1903. The conviction rested on testimony tending to prove, that Ford, the manager of an aid society, received by telephone a message purporting to be spoken by Wachtel, stating that Braxton wanted to borrow five dollars, and that the speaker would see that Braxton paid it on a named day thereafter.
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Accusation of cheating and swindling. Before Judge Hodges, City court of Macon. April 22, 1903. The conviction rested on testimony tending to prove, that Ford, the manager of an aid society, received by telephone a message purporting to be spoken by Wachtel, stating that Braxton wanted to borrow five dollars, and that the speaker would see that Braxton paid it on a named day thereafter. In a few minutes Braxton appeared at Ford’s office and said he had come for the money that Wachtel had telephoned about. Ford thereupon let him have five dollars of the money of the aid society, requiring him…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
1. The deceitful means and artful practice by -which an indictment charges the prosecutor was defrauded and cheated need not be the sole inducement which caused him to part with his property. Proof that they were relied upon and constituted in part such inducement will authorize a conviction, though there may have been other contributing inducements. 2 Clark & Marshall, Law of Crimes, 841, and cases cited.
2. There was no error in admitting testimony, and the evidence authorized the verdict. Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur. O. N. Sellers, for plaintiff in error. William Brunson,…
2Cited by2 opinions
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