STEPHENS, Associate Justice.
The appellant, hereafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted upon a jury trial in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia of the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the Washington Asylum and Jail. The statute under which the defendant was indicted provides for the punishment of one who "by any false pretense, with intent to defraud, obtains from any person...
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