Simmons v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted of embezzlement. The proof in behalf of the state involved seventeen items or transactions, and appellant assigns forty-seven errors as having been committed by the trial court. The record in the case comprises four large volumes. Obviously, in order to bring an opinion within a reasonable length, we must summarize and combine, rather than deal with the assignments of error in detail.

Out of the seventeen items or transactions produced in -evidence by the state, we select and will state one of them as typical or illustrative of the others. From the year…