State v. Smith

LAND, Justice.

The district attorney filed a bill of in- , formation against defendant charging, in separate counts, that defendant obtained from the Louisiana Highway Commission money and property in the sum of $75 by means of (1) false pretenses, and (2) through “the confidence game.”

In response to a bill of particulars, asked for by counsel for defendant, the district attorney filed the following amplification to the information: “That one Sye Varnell, with paint furnished by Bruce Smith (defendant) and not by the Commission, painted the residence and improvements of the said Bruce Smith,…