Holcomb v. State

The indictment here was under section 7342 of the Code (1907), and charged the defendant with having sold or removed certain personal property with the purpose to hinder, delay, or defraud P. J. Martin, who had a lawful and valid claim thereto, under a written instrument, having at the time a knowledge of the existence of such claim. As answer to this indictment, the defendant filed a plea of former acquittal, in which it was averred that he had already been put to trial upon an indictment under section 7423 of the Code (1907), charging him with selling or conveying the identical property…