Legal Opinion
Ricks v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided November 29, 1910No. 2884PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Indictment for cheating and swindling; from Muscogee superior court — Judge Gilbert. August 4, 1910.
1Opinion of the CourtIItll, C. J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted for a violation of section 65S of the Penal Code of 1895, which is in the following language; “If any person, by false representation of his own respectability, wealth, or mercantile correspondence and con*450nections, shall obtain a credit, and thereby defraud any person of any money, or other valuable thing,” etc., “he shall be deemed a cheat and swindler.” His motion for a new trial, based on the general grounds alone, was overruled, and he brings error.
The specific charge in the indictment was that the defendant represented that he was the owner of a…
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