Martin v. State

On and for some time before December 12, 1941, appellant was and had been associated with a firm in Jackson, whose principal business was in buying and selling mineral leases. On that day appellant went to the home of the prosecuting witnesses, Mr. and Mrs. Lane Chandler, in Indianola, and stated to them that he and his two associates in the firm aforesaid had purchased a mineral lease on the Heath lands in Madison County consisting of 240 acres, described as the NE% and E% of NW% Sec. 33, Tp. 11N., R. 3 East, and that he and his said associates had paid therefor the sum of $4,000 — each of…