People v. Guise

Defendant was convicted of obtaining a check for $50 by means of false and fraudulent pretenses. The jury found that defendant, or some one acting in concert with him, called the office of the Chain Link Pence Company, over the telephone, and solicited one of the partners to subscribe $50 for advertising, to be inserted in a year book to be put out by the Detroit Republican Club, and soon thereafter defendant appeared, obtained the check for' $50, payable to the Detroit Republican Club and the check was cashed at a bank under forged indorsement. No such year book was at that time contemplated…