State v. Hillman

— Appellants were informed against upon the charge of the crime of conspiracy to defraud. They were convicted, and a judgment and sentence entered against them, from which this appeal was taken.

It appears that appellant Hillman was engaged in platting land into small tracts, in the vicinity- of the city of Seattle, and particularly at one place designated as the “Garden of Eden.” It was claimed by the state that, in order to make sales of his property, he, by means of newspaper advertise*616ments and other representations, misled, defrauded and cheated various people, and particularly the…