State v. Freeman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Ohiee Justice MoIter.

In this case the defendant was carried before a trial justice under a warrant charging that the defendant did represent to the prosecutor “that one A. J. Frady was due him, on a certain note, eleven dollars, when, in fact, there was not such a sum due, and thereby obtained of deponent a horse of the value of ten dollars, and the said Freeman knew said representations to be false at the time.” Upon this charge defendant was tried before the trial justice and a jury, and a verdict of guilty having been rendered, and the defendant…