Lefler v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the offense of obtaining money under false pretenses. The only error assigned is that the court erred in overruling the motion to quash the indictment. It is insisted by appellant that the false pretenses alleged were not such -as a person of ordinary caution and prudence would credit, and for that reason the indictment was insufficient.

It is alleged that appellant “designedly, knowingly, falsely, and feloniously pretended and represented to the said Annie Kidwell that he, said John Lefler, was then and there a single man; that he was divorced…