Commonwealth v. Blood
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, on the Pub. Sts. o. 203, § 59, against Charles L. Blood and John H. Evans, for obtaining money by false pretences, on November 30,1881, “ with the view and intent to effect the sale to one Francis M. Andrews, of his, said Blood’s, interest and share ” in a certain business in Boston.
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Indictment, on the Pub. Sts. o. 203, § 59, against Charles L. Blood and John H. Evans, for obtaining money by false pretences, on November 30,1881, “ with the view and intent to effect the sale to one Francis M. Andrews, of his, said Blood’s, interest and share ” in a certain business in Boston. The pretences set out in the indictment, so far as they were relied upon by the government at the trial, were as follows: 1. “ That a certain business in which said Blood and Evans and one Frank A. Waterman were then and there interested and engaged, and in which each had an interest and share, was a…
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
The motion to quash the indictment was properly overruled.
When the evidence in the case was closed, the government elected to proceed to the jury upon the false pretences numbered one to eight in the indictment, and no other false pretences were considered. The defendant Blood requested the court to rule that the evidence did not support the several false pretences, and that there was a variance between the allegations and proof, which rulings were refused.
An examination of all the evidence reported in the bill of exceptions shows that it tended to prove the charges made in the indictment. It…
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