State v. . Walton

Citations

• 18 S.E. 945
• 114 N.C. 783

Syllabus

<p>Indictment- for False Pretense — Evidence—Intent—Testimony as to Other Offences, when admissible.</p> <p>1. In the trial of an indictment for obtaining money under false pretenses it is competent, in order to show the scienter and intent, to prove other similar transactions by the defendant.</p> <p>2. In the trial of an indictment for obtaining money under false pretenses by inducing the County Treasurer to cash an order represented by the defendant as being genuine, evidence offered by defendant as to the stub-book kept by him in the ^Register of Deeds’ office, which he claimed would show that the order was issued for a bill of stationery, was inadmissible because irrelevant and not corroborative of the evidence as to defendant’s intent or tending to show that his representation as to the genuineness of the order was true.</p>