Meek v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Geneva. Tried before the Pión. J. W. Foster. The appellant was tried and convicted under the following indictment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment John B. Meek did falsely pretend to John S'. Collins, a member of the firm of Malone, Collins & Company, a firm doing business in the town of Geneva, Ala., and composed of Geo. Y. Malone, Nace Collins, Geo. H. Malone, John S. Collins, Ed.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Geneva. Tried before the Pión. J. W. Foster. The appellant was tried and convicted under the following indictment: “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment John B. Meek did falsely pretend to John S'. Collins, a member of the firm of Malone, Collins & Company, a firm doing business in the town of Geneva, Ala., and composed of Geo. Y. Malone, Nace Collins, Geo. H. Malone, John S. Collins, Ed. R. Malone and Henry B. Collins, with intent to defraud, that he, the said John B. Meek, lived in Geneva county, Alabama, and was…
1Opinion of the CourtHead, J.
We do not understand that the indictment for obtaining goods by false pretenses must necessarily show that the alleged false pretense was capable of inducing the party to whom made to part with his goods, further than the allegation that by means of the pretense the goods were obtained. If the pretense alleged is of an existing or past fact or condition, and is alleged to have been false and made with intent to defraud, and by means of it the defendant obtained the goods from the party named, the indictment is good, unless, indeed, the pretense, as alleged, appears upon' its face to have been…
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