Cook v. State

Per Curiam :

The indictment charges merely that Charles Cook “by a false promise and with at the time intent to injure and defraud one L. A. Briles did then and there obtain from said L. A. Briles goods of the value of three dollars, contrary,” etc.

*37The motion in arrest should have been granted.

We are unaided by a brief in behalf of the indictment, but from its verbiage we assume it was based upon Chapter 4032 of the Laws of 1891. There is no allegation that any one was deceived by the false promise nor as to the ownership of the goods, and that these allegations are necessary under the “false…