Bates v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review an order of tbe circuit court for Yer-non county: T. J". Fbuit, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called “defendant,” was charged by information under sec. 4423, Stats. 1898, for that in Vernon county, Wisconsin, by various specified misrepresentations as to the amount, quality, characteristics, and cost of a tract of land in Crawford county, Wisconsin, on which he desired a loan, he did receive and obtain from IT.
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Error to review an order of tbe circuit court for Yer-non county: T. J". Fbuit, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called “defendant,” was charged by information under sec. 4423, Stats. 1898, for that in Vernon county, Wisconsin, by various specified misrepresentations as to the amount, quality, characteristics, and cost of a tract of land in Crawford county, Wisconsin, on which he desired a loan, he did receive and obtain from IT. P. Proctor, the agent of one Nicholas Senn, “the sum of $1,500 of the money and property of said Nicholas Senn, with intent then and there to…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The first assignment of error is that the evidence did not establish the offense. The charge was of obtaining from H. P. Proctor, as agent, the sum of $1,500 of the money and property of Nicholas Senn. That this charges the obtaining of money specifically there can be no doubt. “The sum of $1,500” to the ordinary intelligence means money. To nothing else is the expression applicable. State v. Ryan, 34 Wash. 597, 603, 76 Pac. 90; Comm. v. Howe, 132 Mass 250. Indeed, if it charged the obtaining of any other property, the information would be bad for lack of any allegation that such property was…
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