State v. Dowe

i. cbiminai. law : false pretense: promise, The indictment charges the crime in the following words: “ The said C. E. Dowe heretofore, etc., at, etc., designedly and by false pretense, and J . , , _ ’ with intent to detraud one .Nicholas Hunsen, did, etc., designedly and falsely pretend to said Hunfsen that he, the said Dowe, had come to p_ay the said I Hunsen.tKQnty^dollars, a debt due the sai3 Hunsen from the said Dowe, and the said Hunsen believing the said false pretenses and representations so made, as aforesaid, etc., and being deceived thereby, was induced, by reason of the false…