State v. Douglas

BAKEWELL, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, William G. Douglas, the then State Treasurer of this State, was prosecuted and tried in the Circuit Court of Brown County on an information containing four separate counts, of which counts 1, 2 and 4 charged a violation of SDC 55.9917 and count 3 was grounded on SDC 55.2304. He was acquitted as to count 2, but convicted as to counts 1, 3 and 4 and sentenced to pay fines aggregating $5,000 and to serve a total of five years in the penitentiary, from which judgment of conviction he has appealed.

Count 1 of the information charges in substance that defendant…