State v. Whitney

Appellant was convicted of the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses and he appeals. The information filed against him charged that, intending and devising by unlawful ways and means, by false and fraudulent pretenses and representations to obtain from H. L. Morrison the sum of $1,000, appellant, on September 6, 1922, at Boise, represented to Morrison that he, with one Scott Anderson, owned a carload of automobiles which were then standing on the tracks of the O. S. L. railroad at Boise; that it was necessary that the freight on said automobiles be paid before the same could be…