State v. Hale

The various counts on which verdicts of guilty were returned relate to separate mortgage-loans, all embraced in a comprehensive transaction involving the development of land in Colorado. Although the record is extremely voluminous, the evidence pertinent to the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict may be briefly summarized.

On September 16, 1925, one Charles E. Gibson, through whose real estate agency loans aggregating substantially a million dollars had been made by the Merrimack River Savings Bank on land situated in or near the San Luis valley, wrote a personal letter to the defendant…