Prentice v. State

The indictment in this case charged this appellant with the offense of obtaining property by false pretense under section 4131 of the Code 1923. The specific charge being that he did falsely pretend to E. C. Kenny, with intent to defraud, that he owned two black mules, one jersey cow, and one wagon, and that he resided, owned, and kept his property in Cullman county, Ala., and that there were no liens on his crops grown in the year 1928, and, by means of such false pretense, obtained from the said E. C. Kenny, meat, lard, flour, shoes, hardware, and dry goods of the value of $300, etc.

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