Rafferty v. State

Mrs. Belle Rafferty, the plaintiff in error, is under sentence of two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary for a certain alleged attempt to obtain money under false, and fraudulent pretenses.

Several reasons have been assigned for reversal:

First. — It is urged in behalf of the prisoner that no such offense as a mere attempt to obtain money under false , and fraudulent pretenses is known to our law; and that, if.there be such an offense, it is at most only a misdemeanor, and not a felony.

All violations of law punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary or by the infliction of the death…