People v. Winslow
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before sentence from the Becorder’s Court of Detroit. Conspiracy to defraud by false pretenses. The information charged that Henry W..
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Exceptions before sentence from the Becorder’s Court of Detroit. Conspiracy to defraud by false pretenses. The information charged that Henry W.. Winslow and Charles Barker “unlawfully, deceitfully - and fraudulently did combine, conspire, confederate and: agree together by divers false pretenses, subtile means and devices, to obtain and acquire to themselves of and from one Alfred B. Nicholas, a large sum of money, to wit: the sum of twenty-seven dollars,' in money, of the value of twenty-seven dollars, of the money of -the said Alfred B. Nicholas, and to cheat and defraud him, the said…
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
None of the evidence received on the trial was foreign to the issue except that of the officer Sullivan that he found a small amount of money on the prisoner’s person; and it is impossible to conceive that that could have worked any prejudice to the prisoner. All the rest had a direct tendency, more or less strong, to support the theory of the prosecution. That theory was that Winslow & Parker, by a false show of business, a false pretense of being about to engage in other business, and by' other fraudulent devices to give color to assurances that a situation could and would be procured for…
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