State v. . Jeffries
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for disposing of mortgaged property, tried before Starbuch, J., and a jury, at Ball Term, of Guileord Superior Court. The defendant was convicted and appealed upon the ground stated in the opinion of Associate Justice MONTGOMERY.
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, J. :
The defendant owed J. A. Smith $15 by note and in July, 1891, executed to him a chattel mortgage upon a bicycle, a horse and a wagon. On the first day of October of the same year, he pledged the bicycle to one Morris, in Greensboro, to secure the repayment of $8 which he had borrowed from him at that time. In March, 1895 (five months after he had pledged the bicycle) the defendant offered to sell the wagon to one Hodgin. The defendant was indicted under Section 1089 of The Code for disposing of the bicycle with intent to hinder, delay and defeat tbe rights of tbe mortgagee,…
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