People v. Jacobs

*Graves, J.:

Jacobs was convicted on a charge of having obtained money of one Barts by false pretenses, and the case comes here on exceptions before judgment.

Many exceptions seem to have been taken, but much the larger portion are properly abandoned. There are some others it would be desirable to consider if the record was in better shape. Jacobs called on Barts to borrow five hundred dollars and proposed to secure him by mortgage on land owned by his wife, Mrs. Jacobs. After some talk the loan was made, but Barts retained ten dollars, by understanding, to pay his expenses in going…