Commonwealth v. Dunleay
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, in sixteen counts, for obtaining money by false pretences. The second count alleged that the defendant, at Taunton, on January 2, 1889, “ unlawfully, knowingly, and designedly, fraudulently did falsely pretend to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a corporation established and incorporated by the laws of the State of Hew York, (by which said insurance company he, the said Richard J. Dunleay, was then and there employed to solicit and obtain applications to…
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Indictment, in sixteen counts, for obtaining money by false pretences. The second count alleged that the defendant, at Taunton, on January 2, 1889, “ unlawfully, knowingly, and designedly, fraudulently did falsely pretend to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a corporation established and incorporated by the laws of the State of Hew York, (by which said insurance company he, the said Richard J. Dunleay, was then and there employed to solicit and obtain applications to said insurance company for insurance, for a compensation to be paid him therefor by the said insurance company, the…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
The usual form of indictments in this Commonwealth for obtaining money or other property by false pretences contains a direct allegation to the effect that the person alleged to have been defrauded believed the pretences to be *332true, and was induced thereby to part with his property. See Commonwealth v. Nason, 9 Gray, 125; Commonwealth v. Jeffries, 7 Allen, 548; Commonwealth v. Lincoln, 11 Allen, 233; Commonwealth v. Hooper, 104 Mass. 549; Commonwealth v. Dean, 110 Mass. 64; Commonwealth v. Coe, 115 Mass. 481; Commonwealth v. Parmenter, 121 Mass. 354; Commonwealth v. Stevenson, 127 Mass. 446;…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CoeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
- Commonwealth v. LeeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Commonwealth v. HoweMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
- Commonwealth v. StevensonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
- Commonwealth v. ParmenterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MulreyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
- Commonwealth v. GreenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1950
- Commonwealth v. O'BrienMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
- State v. BohleSupreme Court of Missouri · 1904
- Commonwealth v. WarnerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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