Higler v. People

The plaintiff in error has been convicted in the Recorder’s Court of Detroit upon an information charging him with obtaining twenty-five dollars of one Burley by false pretenses. The pretense alleged was “ that he, the said John Higler, was then and there engaged in store-keeping in Cadillac, Wexford County, Michigan.” * No further repre*301mentations are set np as accompanying this false pretense, whereby it was made effective. The question now is whether the information will.sustain the conviction.

The statute under which the information was filed is as follows:

“Every person who, with intent to…