State v. Thompson

*61Matson, Justice.

Defendant appeals from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

Defendant, a former treasurer of Todd county, by an information filed on March 19, 1951, was charged with committing the crime (M. S. A. 620.01 [4] and Minn. Const, art. 9, § 12) of receiving $11,689.42 for the county as a public officer thereof and wilfully omitting and refusing to pay over the same to his successor when the defendant left office on Jume 6, 1950. Proof of the offense was based on evidence of money received by the defendant in his official capacity as county treasurer and of his refusal to turn…