People v. Leach

CRAIG (ELLIOT), J., pro tem.

T he appellants Martin A. Leach and Frank Hurlburt, with twenty-five, other persons, were joined as defendants in an indictment containing thirty-nine counts or separate charges. The first count charged all the defendants with a conspiracy to issue and sell mortgage notes and evidences of indebtedness of the Pacific Southwest Loan and Mortgage Corporation without first obtaining a permit from the corporation commissioner and to obtain money and property by false representations in the sale of such mortgage notes. The jury disagreed upon count 1. Each of the other…