State v. McCormick

*4421. False pretenses insolvency of drawer. *441The defendant was prosecuted upon a charge of obtaining from James Fritz, a bay gelding by fraud and false pretenses. On March 9, 1895, two men appeared at the home of Fritz and entered into negotiations with him for the purchase of a gelding. One of the men was J. C. Goggerty, a liveryman, who had resided a short distance away from Fritz for some time and with whom Fritz had been acquainted. The other man represented himself to be I. T. Jones, of Kansas City, and to be engaged in the business of buying horses. He was a stranger to Fritz and had never…