Kugle v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Misapplication of county funds is the offense; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

It is charged in the indictment that “on or about the first day of September, 1931, and anterior to the presentment of this indictment,” the appellant, being the Tax Collector of Somervell county, fraudulently took, misapplied and converted to his own use $195.67 in money, belonging to the county and in possession of the appellant by virtue of his office.

The offense is defined in article 95, P. C., 1925, and the indictment, which was filed April 21, 1932,…