State v. Holmes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

Myron O. Holmes was prosecuted on a charge of fraudulently obtaining from T. F. Garner a check of the value of $265 by false pretenses. The information in effect charged that the defendánt, who owned two horses, procured one Adkins to sell them to Garner, and that the defendant soon afterwards approached Garner and represented to him that the property had been stolen from the defendant, and he thereupon demanded the return of the horses or the value of them; and that Garner, believing the representation to be true, gave him a check…