Dennis v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Criminal Court, Jefferson County; A. H. Alston, Judge. Charles Dennisi was convicted of obtaining goods under false pretenses* and appeals.
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Appeal from Criminal Court, Jefferson County; A. H. Alston, Judge. Charles Dennisi was convicted of obtaining goods under false pretenses* and appeals. The indictment charges that Charles Dennis did falsely pretend to the Cudahy Packing Company' of Alabama, a body corporate, with the intent to defraud, that his neb resources at that time, after deducting his total liabilities from his total resources, were $11,-030, and, by .means of such’ false pretense, obtained on credit from the Cudahy Packing Company, a body corporate (here follows the number of items). The second count charges the same…
1Opinion of the CourtBirown, P. J.
[1] Obtaining goods on eredit by false pretenses involving the statement of a fact as to the pecuniary condition or financial responsibility of the accused is a crime within section 6920, Code 1907. Beasley v. State, 59 Ala. 20; Woodbury v. State, 69 Ala. 242, 44 Am. Rep. 515; 19 Cyc. 398 (IV, C, 2, I); People v. Conger, Wheeler’s Cr. Cas. (N. Y.) 449; People v. Haynes, 11 Wend. (N. Y.) 565; People v. Kendall, 25 Wend. (N. Y.) 399, 37 Am. Dec. 240; Clifford v. State, 56 Ind. 245. Such offense is also within section 6925, which not only denounces such false pretenses as crime, but fixes the…
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