Pirkle v. State

The indictment in this case, omitting formal parts, was in the following language:

“The Grand Jury of said County charge that before the finding of this indictment that Joe Pirkle did falsely pretend to S. H. Fuller, who was at that time Vice-President of the Bank of New Brocton and acting as such, with intent to defraud, that he the said Pirkle, owned a certain mule and wagon, and by moans of such false pretense, obtained from the said Bank of New Brocton, to-wit, Seventy Hollars.

“Against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.”

To sustain these allegations, there was testimony offered…