Moore

The defendant J. W. Moore was convicted in the superior court of Mendocino County of the crime of obtaining property by false pretenses, and. prosecutes this appeal from the judgment and order denying his motion for a new trial.

1. Appellant claims that the court erred in overruling his demurrer to the information, the objections to the information being that it is not direct and certain as to the offense charged, and that it fails to disclose any natural or causal connection between the alleged false representations and the delivery of the property to the defendant. The charging part of the information is as follows: “The said defendant J. W. Moore on the 30th day of June, A. D. nineteen hundred and nineteen, at the said Mendocino County, State of California, and before the filing of this information did then and there devising and intending by unlawful ways and means and by false and fraudulent pre tenses and representations to obtain and get into his custody and possession the goods and personal property of W. II. Edmands, with intent to cheat and defraud and thereby then and there willfully and unlawfully, knowingly and designedly, falsely and fraudulently pretend and…