Anderson v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court, Converse County, Ernest C. Raymond, Judge. Prank E. Anderson was convicted of obtaining property by false pretenses and brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion. The information did not state an offense; alleged false pretenses are insufficiently charged. The check in question was not fully described. There was no allegation that G. S. Williams was defrauded.
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ERROR to the District Court, Converse County, Ernest C. Raymond, Judge. Prank E. Anderson was convicted of obtaining property by false pretenses and brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion. The information did not state an offense; alleged false pretenses are insufficiently charged. The check in question was not fully described. There was no allegation that G. S. Williams was defrauded. (Current v. People, 153 Pac. 684; Kraft v. State, 217 S. W. 1038; Bonnell v. State, 64 Ind. 498; Martins v. State, 17 Wyo. 319; 98 Pac. 709; People v. Weakley, 62 Mich. 297; 28.N. W. 871.) The…
1Opinion of the CourtPotteR, C. J.
Upon an information filed on April 5, 1919, charging the commission of the offense on October 26, 1918, the plaintiff in error, F. E. Anderson, was convicted of the crime of obtaining property by false pretense, under a statute defining the crime as follows: “If any person or persons shall knowingly and designedly, b}^ false pretense or pre*353tenses, obtain from any other person or persons any chose in action, money, goods, wares, chattels, effects, or valuable thing whatever, with intent to cheat or defraud any such person or persons of the same, every-person so offending shall be deemed a…
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