Runyon v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Affirming.

On an indictment for embezzlement, charging Mm with the fraudulent conversion of $200.00, the property of the Sudduth Fuel Company, a corporation, R. C. Runyon was convicted and sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary for a period of one year and one day.

The evidence for the Commonwealth tends to show that the defendant was pay roll clerk of the Sudduth Fuel Company and as such was authorized to draw cheeks on its banking account; that while so acting he drew a certain check in the sum of $200.00 in favor of J. A. Blackburn which was…