State v. Roy

The state has appealed from a judgment quashing an indictment for the crime of obtaining money by a false pretense. The reason for the judgment was that the court was without jurisdiction.

It is charged, in the indictment that defendant received $2,587.55 more than he was entitled to receive, from one J. T. Powers, on a false representation on the part of defendant, as to the number of cross-ties he had manufactured for Powers.

The plea to the jurisdiction of the district court for the parish of Rapides was submitted on a statement of facts admitted by the prosecuting attorney and by…