Commonwealth v. Wood

Three cases against the defendant for obtaining money by false pretences were tried together in the Superior Court, and come before us on a single bill of exceptions. It will be convenient to consider the cases separately.

In the first case, the indictment charges that the defendant, at Berlin, in the county of Worcester, on February 5, 1884, falsely represented to John G. Peters that he, said Wood, was treasurer and secretary of the Western Real Estate and Improvement Company, a corporation established at Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota; that the capital stock of said company was…