Ellis v. State

The indictment herein charges “that G. W. Ellis of the County of Jackson and the State of Florida, on the 1st day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fourteen in the county and State aforesaid, then and there being, was then and there the owner of one black horse mule- named Pete, about six years old, which said mule was then and there on the’1st day of Jan. A. D. 1916, subject to the lien of a valid written and unpaid mortgage for the sum of $337.36 given by the said G. W. Ellis on March 25th, 1914, to L. S. Pender; and that the said G. W. Ellis did *217then and…