State v. Welsh

REYNOLDSON, Justice.

A jury found defendant guilty of violating § 710.4, The Code, “embezzlement by bailee”. He appeals from a judgment sentencing him to a term not to exceed five years in the men’s reformatory at Anamosa. We affirm.

As support for its verdict, the jury could have found the following facts.

Defendant was manager of Sam’s Self-Service Restaurant in Council Bluffs, an enterprise owned by McBluffs, Inc. His duties included hiring and firing employees, purchasing food and supplies, limited bookkeeping, and depositing daily receipts.

In the summer of 1974 Donald J. Man-gan, a…