Harvey v. State

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This appellant has been adjudged guilty of obtaining property by false pretense.

The indictment against this appellant, omitting the formal parts, charges that he:

“ * * * did falsely pretend to Robert Ingram, with intent to defraud, that he had one 1957 four-door Oldsmobile automobile, and that said automobile was free from all liens and encumbrances, and by means of such false pretense obtained from the said Robert Ingram one check of the value of Two Thousand Dollars, the personal property of Joe F. Roddam and Robert R. Ingram. * * * ”

The appellant filed a demurrer…