State v. . Davis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for obtaining goods by false pretenses, tried before CounciU, J., and a jury, at February Term, 1909, of Gaston. There was verdict of guilty, and from judgment on the verdict defendant axipealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
The charge in this.bill of indictment was, in substance, to the effect that the defendant, by means of false and fraudulent representations in reference to the qualities of a .certain sorrel horse, obtained from the prosecutor, G. E. Ford, a claybank mare, in good condition, sound and gentle, and worth $225. The proof on the part of the State tended to show that the claybank mare was obtained by defendant in exchange for a bay “saddle horse,”' and in reference to this trade there was no charge, or evidence tending to support it, that the exchange was effected by means of false…
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