People v. McKenna

The defendant was tried and convicted on an information which charged that, “on or about the fifteenth day of July, 1888, at the county of San Luis Obispo, state of California, [the defendant] did' unlawfully, knowingly, and designedly, by false and fraudulent representations and pretenses, defraud one David Taylor of personal property, to wit, twenty hogs, of the value of $203.40, in lawful money of the United States, *159the personal property of the said David Taylor, coiltrary to the form, force,” etc.

The most important question in the case is whether the facts stated are sufficient to support…