State v. Howley

The assignments of error presented in the record on this appeal fail to reveal prejudicial error.

First: It is contended that the court erred in refusing to grant defendants’ motion (a) to quash the bill of indictment, and (b) in arrest of judgment for that the bill fails to charge an offense.'

The statute, C. S., 4277, under which defendants are indicted, deleting verbiage not significantly related to the case in hand, declares that “If any person shall knowingly and designedly by means of any . . . other false pretense whatsoever, obtain from any person or corporation within the State any…