Boggess

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of conviction for an alleged violation of section 14 of the Corporate Securities Act (Stats. 1917, p. 680). The information filed against the defendant charges “that the said R. A. Boggess on the - day of April, A. D. 1920, in the said County of Sacramento, in the said State of California, and before the filing of this Amended Information, did then and there wilfully and unlawfully and feloniously file and cause to be filed in the Office of the Commissioner of Corporations of the State of California, an application of Alpha Quicksilver Company, a corporation, for a permit to issue securities; that in said application was contained and embodied the following statement concerning the property held by such company, ‘During the time Boggess had absolute charge of the operations at the mine in 1900'—1 and 2, he made it pay net over $7000.00 per month, Net over all mine operating expenses, quicksilver selling at an average of $45.00 per flask’; that said statement so contained and embodied in said application as aforesaid, is and was false and that said defendant so made said statement in said application with knowledge of its falsity;…