Corscot v. State

Defendant’s counsel assign as error the refusal of the court, at the close of the state’s testimony, to grant defendant’s motion to discharge him, and the refusal of the court to grant defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial, because (1) the verdict is contrary to law; (2) because it is contrary to the evidence; and (3) because justice has not been done the defendant. The preceding assignments of error will be treated together.

To constitute the crime of obtaining property by false pretenses there must be a false representation or statement of a past or existing fact,…