State v. Cochran

Appellant was charged, by an indictment in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, with the crime of embezzlement. On a trial he was convicted, and the punishment assessed was five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. Appellant's motion for a new trial was overruled, whereupon he was sentenced, from which judgment he has appealed.

The indictment charged that appellant, Forrest C. Cochran, as the agent, clerk and servant of the Women's Christian Association of Kansas City, Missouri, received money in the amount of $2500, which he, appellant, unlawfully embezzled and converted to his…