Owens v. State

The plaintiff in error was tried, convicted, and sentenced under an information that charges that the said Henry L. Owens “did unlawfully,” etc., “falsely pretend to L. Mi Newman that he, the said Henry L. Owens, was then the owner of an interest in a large cattle ranch in Wyoming, and of about two thousand (2,000) head of cattle; and that he, the said Henry L. Owens, was then engaged in raising horses for sale, and was the owner of a car load of horses which he had for sale in Eau Claire, Wis.; and *497that he, the said Henry L. Owens, was then worth between forty thousand and fifty thousand…