Jacobs v. State

The defendant in the court below excepted pendente lite to the overruling of his demurrer to an indictment for cheating and swindling; and having made a motion for new trial after conviction, he also excepts to the judgment overruling this motion. The indictment charged the defendant with having given a mortgage on a certain bay mare named “Carrie Belle,” to one H. P. Palmer, to secure certain indebtedness therein described, after having executed a mortgage to the Everett Mercantile Company upon the same property, the defendant falsely representing to Palmer, at the time of giving the second…