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76-10-1109. Confidence game -- Punishment as for theft -- Description in charge.
(1) Any person who obtains or attempts to obtain from any other person any money orproperty by any means, instrument or device commonly called a confidence game shall bepunished as in the case of theft of property of like value.
(2) In every indictment, information, or complaint under this section, it shall be deemedand held a sufficient description of the offense to charge that the accused did, on, ____ (insert thedate) unlawfully and knowingly obtain or attempt to obtain (as the case may be) from ____,(insert the name of the person or persons defrauded or attempted to be defrauded) his money orproperty (as the case may be) by means and by use of a confidence game.

Enacted by Chapter 196, 1973 General Session