State v. Deschambault

*217Webber, J.

On exceptions. The respondent’s demurrer to an indictment intended to charge the statutory crime of cheating by false pretenses was overruled below. The respondent contends that the indictment is fatally defective.

We are concerned here only with so much of the indictment as purports to allege the false pretenses and the negation of the truth thereof. Those portions recite that the respondent “did falsely pretend to (the complainant) that he (the respondent), the duly elected and qualified Mayor of the City of Biddeford, Maine, for the year 1960, and ex officio, by virtue of his…