Commonwealth v. Coe
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment for cheating by false pretences. Trial in the Superior Court before Aldrich, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in- substance as follows : The indictment contained two counts. On the first, which alleged an intent to cheat and defraud one Frank Shaw, the jury found that the defendant was not guilty.
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Indictment for cheating by false pretences. Trial in the Superior Court before Aldrich, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions in- substance as follows : The indictment contained two counts. On the first, which alleged an intent to cheat and defraud one Frank Shaw, the jury found that the defendant was not guilty. The second count, on which the defendant was found guilty, alleged that the defendant at Boston, on January 4, 1873, “ being a person of an evil disposition and devising and intending by unlawful ways and means to obtain and get into his hands and possession the goods, merchandise.…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
The indictment alleges that the defendant falsely pretended that a certain certificate of shares of corporate stock was good and genuine and of value as security for a loan of money which Ferris was induced to make to him thereon. The pretended certificate is set forth, and purports to be a certificate that the said John Ferris is the owner of the shares of stock which it represents.
1. One objection raised by the motion to quash is that the indictment does not show how Coe could pledge such stock, or use it to secure a loan from Ferris, or in any way defraud Ferris by means of it; Ferris…
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