People v. Watson
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to recorder’s court of the city of Detroit. (Swift, J.) Information for conspiracy to obtain money by means of false pretenses. Eespondents were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the Detroit House of Correction for two years. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
The respondents were charged with the offense of conspiring to obtain the money of Francis Martin by means of false pretenses.
Capt. Francis Martin was in the eighty-ninth year of his age, and had lived in Detroit about 25 years. •
Between 12 and 1 o’clock of the seventh day of December, 1888, he met the defendant Bice at the junction of Washington and Michigan avenues, in Detroit. They entered into conversation. Bice claimed to have just returned from a trip to California, where he had spent the fall and summer with a brother, and was to' return there in 'a few days. This led Capt. Martin to…
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