Merrill v. State

Indictment for obtaining money and a promissory nóte by false pretenses. Motion to quash .overruled. Trial by jury, and verdict of guilty. Motions for new trial, and in arrest, overruled.' Judgment on verdict'. ' Error is assigned upon each of these rulings.

The objection urged against the sufficiency of the indictment is that the truth of some of the pretenses alleged is not specifically denied. The averments of the indictment as to such pretenses are as follows. “The grand jurors of,” etc., “upon their oaths, present that one Neil Merrill did then and there unlaAvfully, feloniously, and…