Robinson v. State

On Rehearing.

The indictment in this case charged, essentially, that appellant “did falsely pretend to G. P. Irwin, with intent to defraud, that he was an employee of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company * * * and had two weeks wages due him by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and by means of such false pretense obtained,” etc. (describing the goods, etc.).

The evidence, in its strongest aspect for the state, on the question of how the goods were obtained, was as follows: “The defendant said he would give me Speake, Warren & Ratliff as a recommendation, as to his ability to…