Commonwealth v. Barrett

Citations

• 28 Pa. Super. 112
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 147

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Larceny—Indictment—Obtaining money by false pretenses.</p> <p>A person cannot be convicted on an indictment charging him with the larceny of “twenty-five dollars current money of the United States . . . . of the goods and chattels moneys and property of” the prosecutor, on evidence to the effect that the prosecutor included in a check which he was drawing in favor of the prisoner, a sum of money due by himself to a third person, on the false representation by the prisoner that he had authority to receive such sum, and that the prisoner promised to pay it over, but that he drew the money from the bank and failed to make the payment.</p>