Christner v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the superior court of Pottawatomie county on a charge of embezzlement, and was sentenced to serve a term of four years in the state penitentiary.

The prosecution was based on section 2122, Comp. Stat. 1921. Section 2122 defines embezzlement committed by a director, officer, or employee of a corporation, and section 2124 defines embezzlement by persons in a fiduciary relation generally. A brief statement of the facts will suffice. Defendant was the secretary of the Conservative Loan & Trust Company at Shawnee, Okla.,…