1 Ga. App. 521 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1907
The defendant was convicted of a violation of the act of the General Assembly, approved August 15, 1903, which declares, that “if any person shall contract with another to perform for him services of any kind with intent to procure money, or other thing of value thereby, and not to perform the service contracted for, to the loss and damage of the hirer; or after having so contracted, shall procure from the hirer money, or other thing of value, with intent not to perform such service, to the loss and damage of the hirer, he shall be deemed a common cheat and swindler, and upon conviction shall be punished as prescribed in section 1039 of the Code.” It appears, from the proof in the case, that in the winter of 1905 the defendant obtained from the prosecutor