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False Pretenses. Property subject to lien. Statute. Under Code 1906, section 1168, providing that if any person shall sell any property on which he knows there is a lien without informing the person to whom he sells, etc., of the existence of the lien, he shall be guilty of obtaining under false pretenses, whatever he receives from the person dealing with him. An indictment charging that defendant unlawfully, and feloniously sold property on which there was a valid lien, without informing the purchaser of its existence defendant then and there well knowing the existence of the lien and that defendant did in that manner obtain fifteen thousand dollars of property of the purchaser, was a sufficient indictment under the statute.