Allen v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is theft by bailee; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The state’s testimony was, in substance, as' follows: Miss Dill owned certain certificates of stock in Cities Service Corporation and Arkansas Natural Gas Corporation. She delivered these certificates of stock to George Jackson, an employee of appellant, with instruction to take the certificates to appellant and have him use them as collateral in borrowing $775 from a bank. She further instructed Jackson that appellant was to use the money secured from the bank to buy Central Public…