Cunningham v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Yah Syckel, J.

The plaintiff in error, who is an attorney-at-law, was convicted in the Middlesex Quarter Sessions of obtaining money from one Ellen Burke by falsely pretending that he had instituted and was conducting a suit in her behalf in which he would recover for her a large amount. He obtained the money from her in various sums, from time to time, by pretending that they were necessary in the prosecution of the suit.

The indictment charges, in substance, as follows:

“ That the defendant, being * * * an, attorney-at-law, * * * did talsely pretend to…