Any trick or scheme resorted to for the purpose of getting possession of the property of another and by which it is obtained is larceny. For example, where the negotiation for goods was to be a cash transaction, the accused by handing a worthless check in payment, knowing it to be worthless, gets possession of the goods, is guilty of larceny.12

So where the consent of the owner to the taking of the property has been obtained under the fraudulent pretense of hiring or borrowing with the intent to deprive the owner of the property, the getting of the property in this manner is larceny.13

8 State vs. Chamber, 22 W. Va., 779; Flynn vs. State, 42 Tex., 301; Hughes.Cr. Law, Sec. 377.

9 State vs. Ledford, 67 N. C, 60.

10 Higgs vs. State, 113 Ala., 36.

11 State vs. Fem, 41 Com., 590. 12 Shipply vs. People, 86 N. Y., 375;

People vs. Laurence, 137 N. Y., 517.