State v. Murphy

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Defendant was indicted on six counts of obtaining property by false pretenses (hereinafter, “false pretenses”) in violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-100. In five of the counts (98 CRS 72457-72461), the State alleged that defendant obtained money with the intent to defraud by falsely representing that he had brokered business loans for the victims and that they needed to make a good faith down payment in order to finalize the loan transactions. When the loans did not materialize and the victims confronted defendant, he failed to return their down payments. In the sixth count (99…