Raplee

Appellant was charged by information with a violation of section 532 of the Penal Code in having obtained by false pretenses the sum of $2,225 from the prosecuting witness, the alleged false pretenses consisting in the misrepresentations that he was the owner of certain shares of stock in a mining company; that the mine was a good, prosperous working one, the shares of which were worth one dollar each. He was tried and convicted and this is an appeal from the judgment and order denying a new trial and a motion in arrest of judgment. Various grounds of error are assigned which it is claimed justify the setting aside of the judgment of conviction.

It is first contended that the information is fatally defective in substance as it fails to allege a public offense. In this connection it is claimed that it omits to allege the ownership of the money obtained from the prosecuting witness; that it fails to show any causal connection between the alleged false pretenses and their effect on the prosecuting witness and that it likewise fails to show any causal connection between the alleged false pretenses and any purpose or object of defendant in making them. We see no merit in this…