State v. Snyder

THOMAS, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of selling mortgaged personal property exceeding the value of $60 and sentenced to serve a term of not to exceed fourteen years in the State Penitentiary.

In the spring of 1946 the appellant, a married man with limited education and business experience, purchased an old combine harvester; the purchase in part was financed through a loan with Robinson Loan Company secured by chattel mortgage on the harvester; the mortgage was recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Clearwater County; the following spring appellant gave a mortgage on all of…