People v. Getchell
Michigan Supreme Court
On exceptions from the Recorder’s Court of the city of Detroit, where the defendant was tried and convicted on an information charging him with obtaining by false pretences the endorsement of H. Norton Strong to a certain promissory note made by defendant.
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On exceptions from the Recorder’s Court of the city of Detroit, where the defendant was tried and convicted on an information charging him with obtaining by false pretences the endorsement of H. Norton Strong to a certain promissory note made by defendant. At the trial in the Recorder’s Court, the prosecution called said Strong as a witness, who, among other things, testified that, on the 10th of December last, the defendant brought to Mm a note, which the witness produced, and which was read in evidence, and a copy of which is as follows: “$150. Detroit, Dec. 10, 1858. “Thirty days after…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin Ch. J. :
We think the Recorder erred in excluding the evidence offered by the defendant.
The indictment charges that on the 11th of December, 1858, he, by means of false pretences, obtained the en*504dorsement of Strong to a note of one hundred and fifty dollars made by himself. The statute under which the indictment was found provides that “ every person who, with intent to defraud or cheat another, shall designedly, by color of any false token or writing, or by any other false pretence, obtain the signature of any person to any written instru, ment, the making- whereof would be punishable…
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