Barton v. People

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the Criminal Court, upon an indictment, the second count of which charges, with a good deal of surplusage, that on February 2, 1889, he obtained from one Pape, a driver in the service of the H. 0. Staver Manufacturing Company, a buggy of the value of $160, and two robes of the value of $16, tire property of the company, by falsely pretending to Pape that a check drawn by himself upon a bank in Chicago, and dated two days later, for $175, was' a good and available order for the payment of $175 and of the value of $175.

The indictment is sufficient, if the…