State v. Newell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “If a man tells a positive lie, the fact of lying, alone, is not a pretense within the statute; but the moment he uses that lie to effect an object to the disadvantage of another, it is a false pretense.”
• “If a man tells a positive lie, the fact of lying, alone, is not a pretense within the statute; but the moment he uses that lie to effect an object to the disadvantage of another, it is a false pretense.”
• “If a man tells a positive lie, the fact of lying, alone, is not a pretense within the statute; but the moment he uses that lie to effect an object to the disadvantage of another, it is a false pretense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Holton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1899-10-27· cited 26×
• State v. Phelan
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1900-12-18· cited 13×
• State v. Bonnell
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1870-08-15· cited 12×
• United States v. Strandlof
  Tenth Circuit· 2012-01-27· cited 5×
• Minor v. Gurley
  New York Supreme Court· 1908-01-15