Chaplin v. United States

CLARK, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction under the first count of an indictment charging appellant and his wife with obtaining money by false pretenses.1

Of the several points raised by appellant we think one to be of controlling significance. He urges that the indictment failed to charge a crime because the one statement which he is alleged to have made relating to a subsisting fact was not traversed and no evidence was introduced to prove that the one statement was false.

To examine this contention we turn to the indictment. It is there charged that appellant and his wife,…