Honeycut v. State

Citations

• 23 Tex. Ct. App. 71
• 3 S.W. 716
• 1887 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 33

Syllabus

<p>1. Fraudulent Disposition oe Mortgaged Property—Indictment— Evidence.—The indictment in this case charged the appellant with the fraudulent disposition of “four bales of cotton” upon which he had previously executed and delivered a valid mortgage in writing, etc., and was sufficient to charge the offense of fraudulently disposing of mortgaged personal property. The mortgage, however, as it desc ibed the property mortgaged as a “crop of cotton to be raised by” defendant “during the year 1886,” was inadmissible in support of the indictment.</p> <p>3. Same.—Under the Act of the Nineteenth Legislature (General Laws, p. 85), a growing crop may be mortgaged, and a fraudulent disposition of the same when mortgaged is an offense against the laws of this State-See the opinion in extenso for a form of indictment for fraudulently disposing of a growing crop of cotton when mortgaged.</p>