Nelson v. State

This is a proceeding in error by Bert Nelson, hereinafter called the defendant, from a conviction upon an information which charged him with selling 298 bushels of mortgaged corn in the first count, and with removing 75 bushels of mortgaged corn from Pawnee county without the written consent of the mortgagee in the second count. Upon the argument of the motion for a new trial, it was granted by the district court as to count two, but overruled as to count one, upon which count he was sentenced by the court.

The bill of exceptions consists of 236 pages, covering the testimony of some ten…