State v. Howell

On January 29, 1926, an indictment was returned in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis charging that the defendant and John Allen and Raymond Hurling, alias Raymond Allen, with intent to cheat and defraud, did, on January 26, 1925, attempt to obtain from the Liberty Life Insurance Company of Chicago, Illinois, a corporation, the sum of $3,000 by means and by use of a trick, false and fraudulent representations, statements and pretenses. The defendant Howell was granted a severance, and on a trial to a jury was found guilty as charged in the indictment, his punishment assessed at…