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72 Iowa 30

State v. Clark

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided June 16, 1887

Supreme Court of Iowa · decided 1887-06-16

The defendant, Clark, was convicted of the crime of cheating by false pretenses, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the penitentiary, and from that judgment he appeals.

Decided 1887-06-16

Reed, J.

¶1The defendant moved in arrest of judgment on the ground that the indictment did not charge a criminal offense. The indictment charges that defendant, by means of a certain false token and certain false pretenses, induced E. M. Jackson to sign a written instrument, the false making of which would be forgery. There is no averment in the indictment, - however, that he obtained from Jackson the .instrument so signed by him. In the case of State v. McGinnis, 71 Iowa, 685, we held that an indictment in substantially the same form was not sufficient. Following that holding, the judgment should be

¶2REVERSED.

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