State v. Grady

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to an indictment for obtaining money under false pretense. The indictment alleges:

That the appellant “unlawfully, knowingly, designedly, and feloniously did falsely pretend to Gaither Bros., a partnership composed of E. B. Gaither, W. Gaither, and E. Gaither, and domiciled and doing a general mercantile business at Pulton, Itawamba county, Miss., that a certain bale of cotton which he, the said Mull Grady, afterwards sold to the said Gaither he borrowed the money, or the money that white cotton, when in truth and in fact the said bale of…