Ham v. State

1. The defendant was charged with having mortgaged his cotton crop to Denny & Co., and with having sold ten bales of the cotton, with intent to defraud the mortgagee. The testimony showed that he had turned over the cotton to his landlord in settlement of his claim for rent and supplies. As to the proposition that this yas not a criminal transaction, the decision in the case of Cody v. State, 69 Ga. 743, is strongly persuasive, if not controlling. Even though the landlord may have applied the crops, in part, to debts which were inferior to the lien of the prosecutors, and although the…