State v. Solomon

The accused was charged with violating a provision of Act 43 of 1912, which act defines and penalizes the offense commonly known as the confidence game. The case was regularly trifed, and from a conviction and sentence the accused appealed.

There are six bills of exception in the record, and an assignment of error was filed in this court.

The accused was the local agent of the Unity Industrial Life Insurance Company of New Orleans, La. She was charged with attempting to collect the insurance on the life of a living assured, “by means and use of the confidence game.” She had been the agent of…