Drought v. State

Drought was accused in the city court of Atlanta of the offense of being a common cheat and swindler. The accusation alleged, in substance, that he had cheated and defrauded Eady & Mayfield of eight hundred dollars and of stock of the Oakview Cemetery Company of the par value of $40,000 but of the real value of $1,600; that he did this by making certain false representations, the material part of which consisted in exchanging with them, for the eight hundred dollars and the cemetery stock above mentioned, four receiver’s certificates of the face value of five hundred dollars each, with…