Campbell v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

This prosecution was brought under Section 4131, Code of 1923, commonly termed obtaining money by false pretense. The indictment, upon which the defendant (appellant) was convicted (felony), charged, omitting formal parts, that he “did falsely pretend to C. H. Norton, who was at the time Vice President of the First National Bank, of Union Springs, Alabama, and acting as such with intent to defraud that he, the said Tom Campbell owned forty one head of mixed native cattle and four work oxen and by means of such false pretense, obtained from the said First National Bank of Union…