State v. Newell

The five foregoing styled and numbered cases are attempted appeals by the state from a judgment in favor of defendant sustaining pleas of former jeopardy. The record in each of the cases is identical, except that the indictment in the different cases charges a different embezzlement. To' these indictments defendant filed what is styled “Plea in bar and motion to' dismiss indictment.” This instrument alleges, in substance, that in January, 1928, defendant was charged by information in five counts in the district court of Pawnee county with embezzlement as a bank official of the moneys of the…