Jones v. State

Citations

• 22 Fla. 532

Syllabus

<p>1. An indictment against A. for falsely personating B,, and procuring from C. money or other thing by reason of such false personation, should set forth the relations existing between B. and 0., which would show upon what ground B. could demand or expect to receive from C. such money or other thing.</p> <p>2. It is essential in an indictment for falsely personating another, (sec. 41, McC.’s Dig., p. 364,) that the indictment should allege that the defendant intended to convert the property received by him by means of such fraudulent personation to his own use.</p> <p>3. In an indictment for falsely personating another, and by means thereof obtaining property, the ownership of the property should be laid in such person as could maintain a civil action of trespass therefor.</p> <p>4. When the evidence shows that the prisoner went to the Bank of St. Augustine and presented to the teller the bank book of one Kirby, and falsely represented himself to be Kirby, and by means thereof received from the teller the amount such book showed that Kirby had on deposit in such bank, and that the amount paid was in money belonging to the Bank of St. Augustine, the ownership of the money should be laid in the indictment as in such bank and not'in the teller.</p>