Cassou

The defendant in this case, in an information filed in the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco, was charged with the felonious obtaining of personal property by false pretenses. The defendant’s demurrer was allowed upon the ground that the information did not state facts sufficient to constitute a public offense. A judgment of dismissal was thereupon entered, from which the people have appealed.

The information charged • the defendant "with having induced one G. F. Vella, by means of false pretenses, to make and deliver to the defendant the following promissory note:

This note was indorsed by Vella, and following his signature as indorser appears the following:

The information alleged that the note was of the value of six hundred dollars in gold coin of the United States, and that it was the personal property of Vella.

Section 532 of the Penal Code defines the offense of obtaining money, property, etc., by false pretenses; and that section, in so far as it is pertinent to the facts of the present case, reads as follows: “Every person who knowingly and designedly, by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense, defrauds another person of . . .…