Commonwealth v. Ferguson
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 6 — AMBROSE FERGUSON WAS INDICTED FOR OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE PRETENSES.- Appeal from Morgan Circuit Court. J. B.. Hannah, Circuit Judge. Demurrer to indictment sustained and Commonwealth. appeals. (No briefs — record out).
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
Judge Carroll
Revers-
*33The only question in this case is whether or not the lower court ruled correctly in sustaining a demurrer to the following indictment:
“The grand jury of Morgan county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Ambrose Ferguson of the crime of obtaining money by false pretense, committed as follows:
The said defendant, Ambrose Ferguson, on the 23d day of March, 1908, in the county and circuit aforesaid, did unlawfully, willfully and feloniously, and by lalsely representing and pretending to K. S. Lykins and S. M. Freese…
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