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People v. Iden
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Conrey, J.
On information filed by the district attorney of Tulare County the defendant was accused of the crime of felony committed as follows: It was charged that the defendant, on or about the twenty-sixth day of September, 1912, at said county, was'the mortgagor of the following described personal property, to wit: Twenty-five head of dairy cows, twenty-one head of which said cows were branded “I” on the left hip, and which said personal property was then and there located on certain real property described in the information; all of which said personal property had been theretofore mortgaged by said W. A. Iden and his wife to one E. A. Stellar by a mortgage dated July 18, 1912, to secure the payment of the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars by the mortgagors to the mortgagee, and which said mortgage had been, on August 16,1912, duly recorded and was on said twenty-sixth day of September, 1912, in full force and effect; that on said last named date the defendant at said county did willfully, etc., and with intent to defraud said Stellar, sell and transfer all of said mortgaged personal property to M. P. Costa and Lucy Seimas, “and the said W. A. Iden did not then or there, or at…