State v. Murphy

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Collins, J.

The defendant moves to quash the indictment certified in this ease, which was for obtaining money under false pretenses by inducing one August Doppe to cash for the defendant a paper-writing dated November 30th, 1899, purporting to be a check of one Sarah Lines on the First National Bank of Hoboken for $11.50, payable to the order of the defendant. The pretenses set forth were “that the said paper-writing was then and there a good and bona fide check and order for the payment of money of tenor and effect aforesaid, there and theretofore…