Court Opinion

ID: 3671150
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:19:32.645461+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:39.916553
License: Public Domain

We will not decide whether the matter charged in the indictment constitutes an indictable offence, as the question is not presented by the facts stated in the special verdict; and a decision of that point is consequently not called for.
There is a fatal variance between the allegations of the indictment and the proof. An executed contract is alleged; whereas, the proof shows only an executory contract: And the fact is, that before the contract was executed, the fraudulent mixing in of dirt, c., was discovered, which caused an abandonment of the original executory contract, and a new contract was then made and acted upon, in which there was no fraud; for the presence of dirt was then known and admitted, and an allowance was made to cover it.
Judgment affirmed.