State v. Zimmerman

This is an appeal by defendant from his conviction of 22 counts of embezzlement following a jury trial in the District Court, Missoula County.

Defendant, a former psychology professor at the University of Montana, was in charge of a research project involving the effects of malnutrition in monkeys. This project was funded by various research grants from the federal government (through the Department of Health, Education and Welfare) and from private sources (through Nutrition Foundation, Inc., a nongovernmental entity).

These grant funds were physically commingled with other moneys of the…