State v. Brooks

Appeal from Marion. Tried below before the Hon. James M. Rogers. By indictment it was charged that M. H. Brooks, “an officer of the Government, to wit, a deputy sheriff in and for the county of Marion, and by virtue of his said office then and there by law a receiver of public money, to wit, a collector of the taxes for said county, and authorized to collect and receive the moneys due the Government of Texas, and then and there acting in said office, did * * * take, misapply, and convert to his own use a part of the money intrusted to him as aforesaid, to wit, the sum of one thousand dollars,…