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64 Miss. 26

Bracey v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1886

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1886-10-15

Hon. W. M. Rogers, Judge. The grand jury of Noxubee County indicted W. Robert Bracey and Dillard J. Williams, jointly, for obtaining money by false and fraudulent pretenses from one Hezekiah Foote.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1929

1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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Decided 1886-10-15

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ARNOLD, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2If Williams acted honestly, and Bracey received none of the money paid for the certificates, as assumed in the first instruction given for the State, Bracey could not properly be convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses.

¶3In order to convict him of the offense charged, it was necessary that the money obtained, or some part thereof, should have been obtained by him or for him. 2 Whart. Or. L., §§ 2124 and 2140 ; Willis v. The People, 19 Hun. 84; Regina v. Garrett, 22 Eng. L. and Eq. Rep. 607; Roscoe’s Cr. Ev. 475.

¶4Such was the construction which Begina v. Garrett, supra, placed on the English statute prior to its amendment, as shówn in 2 Russ, on Or. 618, so as to meet the case where any person by means of any false pretense induces another to part with his property to any person other than the party making the pretense. This construction was followed in Hew York in Willis v. The People, supra, and we' find no authority to the contrary. *

¶5For the error in giving the first instruction for the State, the judgment is reversed.

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