Knapp v. State

This is a criminal action instituted in the name of the state of Nebraska, hereinafter called the state, wherein Lyle Knapp, plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was prosecuted in the district court for Nuckolls county, Nebraska, for the crime of unlawfully selling mortgaged personal property.

The information charges that the defendant, on the 12th day of June, 1940, in the county of Nuckolls and state of Nebraska, being the owner of a 1939 Ford coupé automobile, mortgaged the same to the Farmers State Bank, Superior, Nebraska, for the sum of $300; and that thereafter, on…