People v. Behee

The respondent was convicted in the recorder’s -court of the city of Detroit, September 8, 1891, of the offense of obtaining property by false pretenses.

*358After the jury had been impaneled, and a witness sworn for the people, respondent's counsel objected to any testimony being given, because there was no offense charged in the information. The information charges—

“That Charles Behee, late of said city of Detroit, heretofore, to wit, on the 9th day of July, A. D. 1891, at the said city of Detroit, in the county aforesaid, with intent to cheat and defraud Edwin S. Barbour, and fraudulently to…