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Excerpt from The Dauphin County Reports, Vol. 25: Containing the Decisions of the Judges of the 12th Judicial District and the Decisions of the Heads of Departments of the State Government
It is settled that the false pretense must be the assertion of an existing fact and not the promise to perform something in the future. Commonwealth vs Moore, 99 Pa. 570. But where the pretense of a false existing or past fact is coupled with a promise, an indictment lies. Commonwealth vs Wallace, 114 Pa. 405.
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