State v. Styner

IIadley, O. J.

Indictment for obtaining ’property under false pretenses. Motion to quash the indictment sustained, and the State appeals.

Omitting formal parts, the indictment, in substance, charges: That the defendant, Harry N. Styner, on the 15th day of March, 1899, at Tippecanoe county, did, then and there, feloniously and knowingly, falsely pretend and represent to Alice Lightle, with intent to cheat and defraud her (Lightle), and for the purpose of obtaining from her the property hereinafter named, that he, Styner, had a bank check for $1,000, executed to him by his father, which he…