Williams v. State

An indictment against G. W. M. Williams, found by tlie grand jury of Screven county and transferred for trial to the county court thereof, charged that the accused “ did falsely and fraudulently represent to J. O. White that he, the said Williams, had purchased the Cuyler & Woodburn R. R. for the sum of twenty-seven thousand dollars, and that he had raised all of the purchase-price except one hundred dollars, and was then on his way to Savannah to pay the purchase-money. By these false and fraudulent representations the said G. W. M. Williams fraudulently induced the said J. C. White to lend…