People v. Johnson
New York Supreme Court
THE defendant was indicted at the General Sessions of the Peace> for the city and county of New-York, under the act (sess. 36. c. 29. 13. 1. R. L. 410.) for obtaining goods by false pretences. ...
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THE defendant was indicted at the General Sessions of the Peace> for the city and county of New-York, under the act (sess. 36. c. 29. 13. 1. R. L. 410.) for obtaining goods by false pretences. ... Ihe indictment charged that the defendant pretended to one Alfred Nash, that he lived with, and was employed by one Jacob Tier, (Tier being well known to Nash,) and that he was sent by Tier to Nash, for a pair of shoes, in the name of Tier, jjy which pretences he obtained from Nash, one pair of shoes, of the value of one dollar, of the goods and chattels of Nash, with, intent to cheat and defraud…
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, Ch. J.,
delivered thé opinion of the court. The statute (1. N. R. L. 410.) declares, that if any person shall, knowingly and designedly, by false pretence, obtain any money goods, or chattels, &c., with intent to cheat or defraud any person, he shall be punished, &c. This is a transcript of the English statute, (30 Geo. 2. ch. 24.) which, according to the English decisions, has been considered as extending the common law offence of cheating, and as introducing a new rule of law. The common law extended to cheats, effected by means of any false token, having the semblance of public…
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