Tennessee Supreme Court December 15, 1858 (Chapman v. State)

CaRUTHERS, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an indictment, in the Circuit Court of Over-ten, for obtaining one quart of whiskey from Joseph Morton by “false and fraudulent pretences.” She is charged to have falsely “represented and pretended that she was sent by one James Brown to get the spirits *38for him.” This is under the act of 1842, ch. 48, and was found 23d June, 1858.