Moneyham v. State

The defendant below, plaintiff in error here, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County of the crime of obtaining goods by false and fraudulent pretenses, and brings his conviction and sentence here for review by writ of error.

The indictment in two counts charges that the defendant obtained from the prosecutors, a firm of merchants at Marianna, the County seat of Jackson County, forty-four dollars and ninety cents worth of enumerated goods by falsely pretending and asserting that he was the owner of two certain described mules and that said mules were unencumbered and free from any…