Barbour v. State

The accused was tried on an indictment which alleged that he had sold thirty bales of “upland short-staple cotton,” which he had grown in 1938 on certain described lands which he had rented from Atlanta Joint Stock Land Bank, without the consent of said landlord, and before payment of the agreed rent to the landlord, and with the intent to defraud the landlord, the landlord having a lien for rent on said cotton, and that said sale caused loss to the landlord in the sum of $1117.43. The first trial resulted in a mistrial, the jury failing to agree on a verdict. On the trial now under review…