State v. Brown

Citations

• 62 Wash. 293
• 113 P. 782
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 694

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law — Information—Variance. In a prosecution for obtaining money under false pretenses on a certain passenger train, alleged in the information as train No. 258, it is not necessary to identify the train by that number if it is otherwise sufficiently identified.</p> <p>False Pretenses — Evidence—Falsity of Statements. In a prosecution for obtaining money under false pretenses, it is not necessary for the state to show that all of the representations were false.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Evidence—Identification of Money — Sufficiency. In a prosecution for obtaining money by false pretenses, money taken from the accused is sufficiently identified to sustain a conviction, where the prosecuting witness described it as “currency” “four twenty-dollar bills,” “United States Currency” etc., and that one was a yellow bill; the weight of the evidence being for the jury.</p> <p>Same — Admissibility. Upon a prosecution for obtaining four twenty-dollar bills by false pretenses, evidence that, on the day after, the sheriff found two such bills concealed in the overcoat of the accused after he had been once searched, is admissible without showing that the coat had been at all times in the possession of the accused.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Trial—Reopening Case. It is entirely within the discretion of the trial court to reopen a prosecution for obtaining money by false pretenses to permit further identification of the money.</p>