Sanford, Alias Molton v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clarke

Affirming.

Appellant was co-nvicted of obtaining money under false pretenses • and sentenced to four years’ -confinement in the penitentiary.

The first complaint is that the court erred in overruling his demurrer to the indictment. The only criticism of the indictment is that it fails to allege that the complainant, R. B. Neal, relied upon the alleged false representations of the accused and would not have parted with his money but for such representations.

It is true that the indictment nowhere contains this precise language, and it is also true that…