State v. Ellison

In this case the State has appealed from a judgment quashing the indictment, the material parts of said indictment being as follows:

“That E. G. Ellison and D. H. Powell, Jr., late of said oonnty, heretofore, to-wit, on the-day of- January, A. D. 1924, in the county of Crockett aforesaid, then and there unlawfully, willfully and feloniously did dispose of the crop of cotton and corn, of value more than $30, grown on the-land of D. H. Powell, Jr., in the Eleventh civil district of said county with the intent to and did defraud one R. R. Gibbons, who had a mortgage upon said crop of corn as…