Campfield v. State

OPINION

By HORNBECK, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Common Pleas Court denying petitioner’s prayer for a writ of habeas corpus.

The errors assigned to the judgment are seven but all of them may be included in one, namely, that the Court erred in failing to hold that the sentence and judgment were void because predicated upon an indictment which charged no offense against the defendant.

The indictment in so far as is pertinent charges that the petitioner,

“unlawfully and knowingly, falsely pretend, with intent to defraud, to one C. E. Lunsford, that he, the said L. R. Camp-field had…