People v. Campbell

Defendant was charged with two violations of the Usury Law (Stats. 1919, p. lxxxiii) in separate counts of the same complaint, was convicted on both counts and appeals from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial. The charging part of each count alleges that the defendant did “ask and demand, receive, take, accept and charge” interest on a loan at a rate greater than twelve per cent per annum.

At the trial it was stipulated that the complaining witness, one Melton, executed two promissory notes, on which the two counts of the complaint are based, and which were…