Commonwealth v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, for obtaining property by false pretences. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Dewey, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The case went to the jury only on certain allegations in two counts, the second and fifth. The allegations in the second count are of false representations to one Martin that the daily receipts of a certain business then carried on by the defendant at a certain shop “then averaged, and for some time theretofore had averaged, from twenty to twenty-five dollars,” and that the defendant “ had occupied said store in carrying on said business for the period of five years theretofore.” It is alleged that Martin was induced by these pretences to pay the defendant three hundred and fifty dollars for…
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