Clarke v. People

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter also referred to as the defendant, was convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses, and brings error.

The evidence, on the part of the prosecution, shows that one O. F. Broman, the prosecuting witness, had several conversations with the defendant during October, 1913. In those conversations the defendant represented to Bro-man that the Clarke Medical Company had at that time in operation two institutions for the treatment of persons afflicted with either the liquor, or the morphine habit; that one of such institutions was located at Denver, and the other…