Hankinson v. State

Hattie Hankinson was convicted of violating what is commonly known as the “labor-contract law” (Acts 1903, p. 90). Her motion for a new trial, based .alone on the general grounds, was overruled, and she brings error. The accusation, so far as material, charges that the defendant “on the 15th day of February, 1909, after having entered into a contract with William Wesley to perform services for him as a cropper for and during the year 1909, did procure from William Wesley on said contract $15 in money, meat of the value of $7.25, meal of the value of $1.86, flour of the value of $2, lard of…