Miley v. State

Miley was found guilty, under Penal Code, § 673, of giving a mortgage on personal property held by him under a conditional bill of sale. He claimed that when he bought nothing was said about reserving the title; that he signed the note without reading it,' being at the time drunk (though the seller had nothing to do with giving him the liquor) and in ignorance of the fact that title was reserved; that his credit was good; that he had bought other property on the same day from another party without security or reservation of title; and that he mortgaged the property to Ashley in good faith,…