State v. Thompson

— In 1947, the grand jury of Polk County, Iowa, returned an indictment which accused William H. Cotton, Charles E. Parmenter, Roy J. Hild, Ben B. Dewey and H. H. Thompson of conspiracy as defined by section 719.1, Code of 1946, and charged that the said named parties unlawfully conspired with each other and with other persons unknown to the grand jury with fraudulent and malicious intent and purpose to commit a felony by obtaining money from Polk County by means of false pretenses and with intent to defraud. H. H. Thompson, being granted a separate trial, was found guilty by a jury and he…