People v. Cage

The issue presented is whether the crime of false pretenses, MCL 750.218; MSA 28.415, 1 may be predicated upon the misrepresentation of a present intent to do a future act. We conclude that it may not.

The defendant in the instant case pled guilty in Washtenaw Circuit Court to the charge of obtaining property having a value over $100 by false pretenses. During his plea, he admitted that he went to a Lincoln-Mercury dealer in Ypsilanti and obtained possession of a used car by telling a salesman that he would buy the car if he liked it after test driving it and having it "checked out” at a local…