Haas

Defendant was charged with having obtained the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars of the money of Pearl P. Flynn and her husband, Thomas E. Flynn, by means of false and fraudulent representations and pretenses. A conviction resulted, and from the judgment entered upon the verdict of the jury an appeal has been taken.

But one point is presented for consideration: It is claimed that the information was insufficient to charge a public offense in that it failed to show causal connection between the representations alleged to have been made and the parting with the money by the complainants. The information set out that the defendant, with intent to cheat and defraud, designedly and feloniously represented to the complainants that he possessed supernatural powers by and through which he was able to communicate with the dead and to receive messages from the dead; that he pretended to go into a condition called a “trance” and that while in such condition he represented and pretended to receive a message from the dead mother of complainant Pearl P. Flynn by which message such mother of the said Flynn advised and directed Pearl P. Flynn to sell and dispose of all the property then…