State v. Letourneau
| Decision Date | 07 March 1902 |
| Citation | 51 A. 1048,24 R.I. 3 |
| Parties | STATE v. LETOURNEAU. |
| Court | Rhode Island Supreme Court |
Joseph A. Letourneau was convicted of obtaining money under false pretenses in writing, and he petitions for a new trial. Petition granted.
Argued before STINESS, C. J., and TILLINGHAST and ROGERS, JJ.
Charles F. Stearns, Atty. Gen., for the State.
Franklin P. Owen, for defendant.
The defendant was indicted for, and convicted of, the offense of obtaining money under false pretenses in writing; and the case is now before us upon his petition for a new trial upon the grounds that the verdict was against the evidence, and that the trial court erred in certain of its rulings. The false pretense set out in the indictment is that the defendant, "with the intent to defraud one William O. Blanding, did falsely pretend in writing that seven hundred and twenty boxes of pills were Dr. Coderre's Red Pills for Pale and Weak Women, prepared by the Franco-American Chemical Company, by means of labels pasted upon each of said boxes [a copy of one of said labels being attached to and made part of the indictment], whereas, in truth and in fact, the said seven hundred and twenty boxes of pills were not then and there Dr. Coderre's Red Pills, * * * prepared by said company, as he, the said Joseph A. Letourneau, then and there well knew, by means of which said false pretenses the said defendant then and there, designedly and with intent to defraud the said William O. Blanding, did obtain from him a good and valid check and order for the payment of money to the amount of $197.50."
In addition to the direct evidence offered by the state in support of the particular charge contained in the indictment, the attorney general...
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