State v. Dixon

Appellees, Dixon, Carter and Robertson, were charged in information filed by the prosecuting attorney with violation of § 3212 of Pope’s Digest, which makes unlawful the sale, transfer or disposal of mortgaged chattels with intent to defeat the mortgagee in the collection of his debt. The evidence established that appellee Dixon had mortgaged his cotton crop to the United States of America, to secure a P.S.A. loan, on which a considerable balance remained unpaid at the time of the sale of the cotton referred to in the information; that appellee Dixon procured appellee Carter to haul the…