Rothschild v. State

The prisoner has appealed in error from a judgment of conviction for the crime of obtaining goods under false pretenses. The indictment charges the prisoner with feloniously obtaining, with intent to defraud the owners, certain specified articles of jewelry, the property of a firm named, of the aggregate value of $1,178, by false pretenses made to the agent of the firm, which pretenses were: “That he had in his store, where he and the agent then were, pledges and pawns upon which he had loaned the sum of $5,000, then and there pointing out to said agent what appeared to *295'be a large quantity…