State of Arizona v. Smith

The defendant Thomas Jefferson Smith and one.William O. Titus were jointly informed against by the County Attorney of Maricopa County (1) of attempted grand theft and (2) of grand theft, alleged to have been committed on or about March 23, 1942. In another information they were jointly charged in four counts with four different conspiracies to obtain money and property by false pretenses, and in one count of the crime of extortion, all between February 15 and March 19,1942. The extortion count was later dismissed.

The defendants were tried together before a jury and a verdict of guilty was…