Brown v. State

Glade Brown was convicted of cheating and swindling, under the act of 1903, commonly known as the “labor-contract act” (Acts 1903, p. 90), and his motion for a new trial was overruled. The evidence for the State, briefly stated, is as follows: The prosecutor testified, that about ten daj^s or two weeks before Christmas, 1909, the defendant made a verbal contract with him, to work for him for the year 1910, beginning on the first day of January, for monthly wages of $12 ; that at the time this verbal contract was made he gave the defendant an order for flour, sugar, tobacco, nuts, bananas, and…