Martin v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of conspiracy, and is a companion case to Ohlman v. State (Miss.), 16 So. (2d) 372. The indictment alleges, with probably unnecessary detail and prolixity, that the appellant, F. A. Ohl-man and B. D. Johnson, entered into a conspiracy to obtain property from Mr. and Mrs. Chandler by false pretenses; the scheme agreed on being, in substance, that Martin and Ohlman were to obtain property from the Chandlers in exchange for oil royalty acreage in Holmes County, Mississippi, by falsely representing to them that there was a brisk market for all the oil royalty…