Allen v. State

Hall, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of cheating and swindling, and assigns error on the trial court’s denial of his motion for new trial.

There was evidence that the defendant sold the witness Dunbar 100 bales of hay and told him that it could be safely stored in a certain barn owned by a third person and Dunbar had it placed there. Dunbar thereafter sold the hay to another buyer. The defendant told another person to whom he owed money that he could take hay from this barn to sell, but did not tell him that some of the hay in the barn was Dunbar’s. This person and'a buyer then took some…