State v. Eicher

Defendants were indicted under section S13 of the Revised Statutes for obtaining by false pretenses “credit from the Guaranty Bank & Trust Company in the sum of sixteen thousand dollars by falsely representing that a certain chattel mortgage note dated .Tune 2, 1930, signed by H. B. Curry & Company, Inc., by H. B. Curry was a note of value .and secured by a chattel mortgage on a certain lot of lumber at Comrade, Louisiana, when in truth and in fact the lumber was of no value, and that said bank relied upon said false representation in extending the said credit.”

Defendants, through counsel,…