Sharp v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Magie, J.

The .plaintiff, in .error, Sharp, was convicted in the Gloucester Sessions upon an indictment charging him-with having procured the endorsement of one Cunard upon his promissory note by false pretences and with intent to defraud.

Sharp, by this writ of error, seeks a reversal of th.e conviction, and has assigned numerous errors upon the-record and proceedings.

Two of the assignments, present such unmistakable error that it is plain that the judgment cannot stand.

In the first place, the false pretences charged in.the indictment were not proved,…