State v. Helms

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Perskie, J.

The defendant was indicted by the Cumberland county grand jury (December term, 1935), for obtaining property by false token and pretense. This indictment charges that on May 20th, 1935, defendant, John C. Helms, “* * * devising and intending to cheat and defraud M. Alice Pancoast of her property, unlawfully, knowingly and designedly, did falsely pretend that he, the said John C. Helms, had money in bank and that he was sending his emplojre to the property of M. Alice Pancoast, to purchase a load of chickens, and that the value thereof would…