State v. Samuels

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Atlantic County Quarter Sessions upon an indictment charging him with having obtained money under false pretences. From the judgment on this conviction ho has appealed to this court. The case is before us on assignments of errors and under section 136 of the Criminal Procedure act.

This judgment must be reversed for an error in the judge's charge prejudicial to the defendant. The fifth assignment of error is founded on an exception taken, by counsel of defendant, to that portion of the charge…