Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Ventura County.

The body of the information was as follows: “ Juan Millan, the above-named defendant, is accused by the district attorney of said Ventura county by this information of the crime of felony, to wit, obtaining money by false representations, committed as follows: The said Juan Millan on the eleventh day of December, A. d. eighteen hundred and ninety, at the said county of Ventura, and before the filing of this information, with intent to defraud one Antonio Urtasun of said county, of his property, did unlawfully, knowingly, and designedly, falsely, and feloniously represent and pretend to him, the said Urtasun, that two certain bars or pieces of metal which he, the said Juan Millan, then and there had and produced to the said Urtasun, were both pure gold, and were of the value of one thousand dollars, each and of the aggregate value of two thousand dollars, and the said Urtasun then and there believing said false pretenses and representations, and being deceived thereby, was induced by reason of such false pretenses and representations so made as aforesaid by the said Millan to loan and deliver, and did then and there deliver to said Millan, on the pledge and security of the said two bars or pieces of metal, the sum of eight hundred and thirty-one dollars in lawful money of the United States, which said money was so secured and obtained by the defendant, unlawfully, knowingly, and designedly to defraud said Urtasun, and which said bars or pieces of metal at the said time and place, when and where the same were pledged as aforesaid, were not gold, and had not any value beyond the value of so much brass, to wit, had not any value in excess of the sum of five dollars in lawful money of the United States, contrary to the form, force, and effect of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the people of the state of California.” Funher facts are stated in the opinion of the court.