Haines v. Territory
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to district court. Alanson L. Haines, William W. Russell, John Faulds, and A. W. Branner were indicted for obtaining goods from Oscar Walker by false pretenses, and convicted. They assign error. Indictment for obtaining property on false pretenses.
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Error to district court. Alanson L. Haines, William W. Russell, John Faulds, and A. W. Branner were indicted for obtaining goods from Oscar Walker by false pretenses, and convicted. They assign error. Indictment for obtaining property on false pretenses. The indictment, omitting the introductory part, proceeds as fol-iows: “Alanson L. Haines, William W. Russell, John Faulds, and A. W. Branner, whose first and Christian name is to the jurors aforesaid unknown, late of the county aforesaid, on the twenty-third day of April,in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, at…
1DissentCohn, J.
Crimes Act N. J. § 171, (Rev. 257,) makes it a misdemeanor to obtain by false pretenses money, wares, merchandise, goods, or chattels, “or other valuable thing, ” with intent to cheat or defraud. Defendant was indicted for obtaining a person’s signature to an order for certain articles for which the signer was to pay a named price. Held that, though this instrument purported to be negotiable, it could not under any circumstances affect the signer, if he proved that it was obtained by false pretenses, and hence it was not a “valuable thing, ” within the meaning of the statute, and defendant’s…
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