State v. Lynn

Citations

• 89 Wash. 463
• 154 P. 798
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 710

Syllabus

<p>False Pretenses — Elements of Offense — Misrepresenting Existing Fact. To constitute grand larceny committed by color or aid of any fraudulent or false representation, under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2601, tbe representation must be of an existing or past fact.</p> <p>Same — False Representations — Existing Facts — Evidence—Sufficiency. A charge of grand larceny by inducing tbe prosecuting witnesses to invest in a corporation to be organized to do a grocery business, by falsely representing that defendant “bad $4,000 in cash at tbe time” received from tbe sale of two stores in tbe city of S. wbicb be would invest in tbe business, is not sustained where tbe proof merely went to show that defendant did not put more than $225 worth of groceries into tbe business.</p>