Epperson v. State

Roberts, Chief Justice.

The defendant being convicted under an indictment for the acquisition of property by a fraudulent representation, moved in arrest of judg*80ment, upon the general ground of the insufficiency of the indictment, with several others that related more to its form than to its substance, and need not therefore be discussed. The indictment charged that the defendant fraudulently represented to Mary Roland, wife of Denton Roland, that Denton Roland had sent him to her to get a side of bacon for his, defendant’s, own use, and that she delivered to him the side of bacon, &c. In the…