Commonwealth v. Murphy
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 7 —INDICTMENT— APPEAL PROM HARRISON CIRCUIT COURT. The appellee having, with intent to defraud, falsely represented to the prosecuting witness that he was empowered to employ a watchman at the depot, and thereby obtained from witness one dollar and twenty-five cents, the representation was sufficient to bring the case within the law of obtaining money under false pretenses and the case should have gone to the jury.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
DELIVERED THE OPINION OP THE COURT.
William Murphy having been indicted for the crime of obtaining money under false pretenses, and, under peremptory instruction by the court to find for him, acquitted by the jury, the Commonwealth appeals.
Price Ronald, prosecuting witness, testified that on a Saturday night he was, in a saloon, accosted and asked by accused if he would like to have a job of night-watchman at the railroad depot in Cynthiana, for which he would get two dollars and seventy-five cents each night, and that he could give it to him; that he, witness, would have to get a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Glackan v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1860
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