Commonwealth v. Haughey
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 2 — INDICTMENT— APPEAL PROM XENTON CIRCUIT COURT* cited chap. 28, art. 13, sec. 2, Revised Statutes; 5 British Crown Cases, page 508. cited 40 Eng. Law and, Eq. Rep., 589 ; 6 Term Rep., 565 ; 2 Leach, 652 ; 2 Russell on Crimes, pages 293, 294, 289 ; 11 Wendell, 557; 4 Hill, 9; 3 lb., 69.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PETERS
delivered the opinion op.the court :
The appellee was indicted in the Kenton circuit court for having obtained from one R. R. Jones a note which Jones held upon hirn, to be surrendered up to him, upon false pretenses.
To the indictment there was a demurrer, the demurrer was sustained, and indictment dismissed, and the Commonwealth has brought the case to this court. ,
The indictment charges, that Jones held a note on appellee for $740, all of which had been paid but one hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty-four cents; that appellee came to him, and falsely represented that he had…
2Cited by1 opinion
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