Case Name: THE STATE, Appellant, v. VANDENBURG
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1901-02-12
Citations: 160 Mo. 42
Docket Number: 
Parties: THE STATE, Appellant, v. VANDENBURG.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 160
Pages: 42–42

Head Matter:
THE STATE, Appellant, v. VANDENBURG.
Division Two,
February 12, 1901.
Indictment: fame pretense. For the reasons given in State v. Vandenburg, 159 Mo. 230, decided on December 18, 1900, the indictment in this ease is held sufficient to charge defendant with having obtained a promissory note for $30 by means of false pretenses.
Appeal from Lincoln Circuit Court.—Hon. E. M. Hughes, Judge.
Reversed and remanded.
Edward C. Crow, Attorney-General, and Sam B. Jeffries, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.
Norton, Avery & Young for respondent.

Opinion:
SHERWOOD, P. J.
The defendant, alias John Burg, was indicted for obtaining a check for $10 from one Martin B. Rafter, on the Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank of Troy, Mo., and also for obtaining from the same party a promissory note for $30; which check and which note were alleged to have been obtained by defendant through and by means of false pretenses.
Defendant's motion to quash the indictment proved successful, and the State appealed, the sufficiency of the indictment being the only question the record presents.
This case is on all fours with that of the State against the same defendant, decided at the present term, 159 Mo. 230, wherein it was ruled that an indictment, substantially identical with the one at bar, was not obnoxious to objection. That case dominates this one, and for like reasons the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded.
All concur.