Commonwealth v. Schmidt

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Appellant was convicted upon an indictment drawn under section 111 of the Act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 410, and charging him with having obtained, on April 1, 1925, from Helen Kendrick, the prosecuting witness, the sum of $2,300 by falsely pretending that a real estate and investment company, of which he was the president, was the owner of a certain mortgage upon premises situated at No. 2665 Sepviva Street in the City of Philadelphia, which security the company could and would sell and assign to her for that amount; whereas, the truth was that the company did not…