Canter v. State

This is a conviction for obtaining goods under false and fraudulent pretenses. The indictment charges that the defendant feloniously and fraudulently obtained from the firm of G. B. Park & Co. a pair of pants and a pair of shoes, “by means of falsely and fraudulently pretending and representing that W. A. Leming owed him four dollars and seventy-five cents, and by falsely and fraudulently pretending that he could not, at the store of said G. B. Park & Co., try on the said articles to determine whether they would fit, but that he would take the said articles away and would re turn them as soon…