Morris v. People
Colorado Court of Appeals
JError to the District Court of Las Animas County. The People prosecuted Adolph Morris, the plaintiff in error, by information containing several counts, which charged him with a violation of the following section of the .Criminal Statutes: — “ If any person, by false representations in writing of his own responsibility, wealth or mercantile correspondence and connection, shall obtain a credit thereby, defraud any person or persons of money, goods, chattels or any valuable…
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JError to the District Court of Las Animas County. The People prosecuted Adolph Morris, the plaintiff in error, by information containing several counts, which charged him with a violation of the following section of the .Criminal Statutes: — “ If any person, by false representations in writing of his own responsibility, wealth or mercantile correspondence and connection, shall obtain a credit thereby, defraud any person or persons of money, goods, chattels or any valuable thing, or if any person shall cause or procure others to report falsely of his honesty, wealth or mercantile character,…
1Opinion of the CourtBissell, P. J.
The disposition of two questions out of the many urged by counsel and legitimately presented by the record will serve to confirm the rights of the plaintiff in error, and so construe the statute that the adjudication may serve as a precedent to prosecuting officers in the state.
That section of our criminal code which is cited in the statement first appears in the acts of 1861. It remained unchanged in the compilation known as the Revised Statutes of 1868, and reappears in the General Statutes of 1877 and 1883 in the same identical form. From the original act down to the statutes of 1883 there…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LeeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Smith v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1878
3Cited by3 opinions
- State ex rel. Thomason v. TempleTennessee Supreme Court · 1919
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- State ex rel. Otoe County Agricultural Ass'n v. WallenNebraska Supreme Court · 1928