Commonwealth v. Sanders
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 5 — INDICTMENT— APPEAL FROM HENDERSON CIRCUIT COURT. The indictment contains all the averments necessary to constitute a good indictment for obtaining goods by false pretenses. (Wharton’s Crim. Law, 9th ed., vol. 2, secs. 1150, 1174, 1176; 2 Bishop’s Crim. Law, 6th ed., secs. 420, 424, 427, 437, 438, 464; Commonwealth v. Murphy, 16 Ky. Law Rep., 224; Commonwealth v. Grady, 13 Bush, 285; Hennessy v. Commonwealth, 88 Ky., 301; Commonwealth v. Whitney, 8 Ky.
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Case 5 — INDICTMENT— APPEAL FROM HENDERSON CIRCUIT COURT. The indictment contains all the averments necessary to constitute a good indictment for obtaining goods by false pretenses. (Wharton’s Crim. Law, 9th ed., vol. 2, secs. 1150, 1174, 1176; 2 Bishop’s Crim. Law, 6th ed., secs. 420, 424, 427, 437, 438, 464; Commonwealth v. Murphy, 16 Ky. Law Rep., 224; Commonwealth v. Grady, 13 Bush, 285; Hennessy v. Commonwealth, 88 Ky., 301; Commonwealth v. Whitney, 8 Ky. Law Rep., 776; 2 Bishop’s Crim. Proc., secs. 165 to 186.)
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
DELIVERED THE OPINION OE THE COURT.
The indictment in this case, to which a demurrer was sustained, is substantially as follows: “The grand jury * * accuse Chas. Sanders of the crime of obtaining goods and property by false pretenses committed in manner and form as follows: The said Chas. Sanders on the first day of March, 1895, and upon finding of this indictment in said county of Henderson did unlawfully, falsely and feloniously represent and pretend to D. W. Cummings that the Ohio Valley Railway Company, a corporation existing under and, by virtue of the laws of Kentucky, owed…
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