Harwell v. State

The defendant was indicted for the offense of cheating' and swindling by procuring $20 from one M. Benton, by means of a contract with said Benton to work as a farm laborer, this sum, as alleged, having been fraudulently procured after the contract. Before trial the defendant demurred to the indictment, both generally and specially. The court overruled the demurrer, and exceptions were taken pendente lite. The grounds of the demurrer were as follows: “(1) Because said indictment, in the matters therein contained, is insufficient in law, and he ought not to be required to answer same. (2)…