State v. Cohran

This is an appeal by the State from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lafayette County, which sustained a demurrer to the indictment of Mattie Cohran.

The indictment was drawn under Section 2149, Code of 1942, and attempted to charge the crime of false pretenses. Omitting the formal parts, it charged that Mattie Cohran and another: “late of the County aforesaid, on or about the 30th day of October, 1952, in said County and State did wilfully, unlawfully, knowingly, fraudulently, designedly, and feloniously, with intent to cheat and defraud one Boss Brown and Barry Brown, a partnership, by…