People v. Lennox
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before judgment from Ingham; Person, J. Cornelius Lennox was convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses. It appeared upon the trial that tbe money so obtained was used for tbe purpose for which it was solicited and given, namely, the establishment. of a training school for colored children.
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
The gist of the crime charged in the information is that the respondent “did designedly falsely represent and pretend to said Robert B. Shank that he, thé said Cornelius Lennox, had received from one Walter A. Newton a subscription of $10, with payment in full thereon by said Walter A. Newton,” whereas the said Walter A. Newton had not subscribed nor paid him. the $10, and had subscribed and paid to him only $1. The allegations in regard to the Subscription book or paper, and that said Newton had written his name and amount therein, are merely descriptive of the means used, and of evidence to…
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