State v. Nine

1 — The indictment is against defendant, Nine, and one John Stewart, but the trial was alone as to Nine. The property charged to have been obtained by false pretenses was boots, shoes, and other property, of the value of eight hundred dollars, belonging to one Joseph Lawson. For such property Lawson received two notes, one for five hundred dollars and one for three hundred dollars, payable to the order of John Stewart, and signed by Walter Brinkerhoff, which notes were to be secured by a mortgage on certain described land in the state of Missouri. These facts appear in the indictment, and the…