State v. House
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polh District Qowt. The defendant was indicted for cheating by false pretenses. The indictment was in two counts.
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Appeal from Polh District Qowt. The defendant was indicted for cheating by false pretenses. The indictment was in two counts. In the first count it was charged that the defendant falsely pretended to one Addison that he, the defendant, was the agent of the firm of.n. & R. I>. Wliittemore & Oo., of St. Louis, and was by said partnership duly authorized to collect from said Addison a judgment rendered in the Circuit Court of Rock Island county, Illinois, in favor of said II. & R. B. Wliittemore & Co., and against George E. Holmes and said Addison, doing business in the firm name of George E.…
1Opinion of the CourtEothrock, J.
1. cbiminai, meat. I. Before pleading to the indictment the defendant filed a motion to require the prosecution to elect upon which offense charged in the indictment the defendant should be required to plead. The motion was overruled. Section 4073 of the Code provides that “if any person designedly and by false pretense, or by any privy or false token, and with intent to defraud, obtain from another any money, goods or oilier property, or so obtain the signature of any person to any written instrument the false making of which- would be punished as forgery, he shall' be punished, etc.”
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