Bowman v. State

Citations

• 54 Fla. 16

Syllabus

<p>I. In an information against an attorney for obtaining money under the false pretense that a divorce had been obtained, the mere omission of the judge’s signature from a copy of the alleged decree set forth, does not vitiate the information.</p> <p>2. To constitute the crime of obtaining money under false pretenses, it suffices that the pretense actually deceived and was well adapted to deceive the person to whom it was made as to an existing fact or circumstance, and thereby induced him to part with something of value.</p> <p>3. The crime of obtaining money under false pretenses is made out though the state proves a less sum than that named in the indictment. .</p> <p>4. The crime of obtaining money under false pretenses is not graded according to the value of the amount obtained.</p>