State v. Austin

The Circuit Attorney of the City of St. Louis filed in the circuit court a verified information based on Section 3347, Revised Statutes 1919, charging defendant with executing, with intent to defraud, to one Williams, in consideration of the debt mentioned therein, a chattel mortgage on a Seeburg orchestration organ of the value of six hundred dollars, without reciting therein that he had previously given to one Blase, in consideration of the debt mentioned therein, a chattel mortgage on the organ described, which was then and there outstanding and in full force. The jury returned a verdict…