Commomwealth v. Watson

OPINION OF THE COURT BY CHIEF

JUSTICE HOBSON

Reversing.

Section 1208, Kentucky Statutes, is as follows:

“If any person by any false pretense, statement or token, with intention to' commit a fraud, obtain from another money, property or other thing which may be the subject of larceny, * * * he shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years.”

Daize Watson was indicted -under the statute in the Graves Circuit Court, the charge being set out in the indictment in these words:

“The said Daize Watson in the said County of Graves on the 20th day of March, 1911, and before…