Beaty v. State

1. Under Code § 67-9909, “Any person who shall, in the sale or disposing of an3'’ property, cither real or personal, defraud another by falsely representing that such property is not subject to any lien, knowing the same to be subject thereto, . . . shall be punished as for a misdemeanor.” Whore the State, upon the trial of one indicted under the foregoing section of the Code, introduced evidence from which the jury was authorized to find that the defendant knowingly sold the prosecutor an automobile upon which there was a prior recorded chattel mortgage, falsely representing to the…