Duerksen v. State

This is an appeal by the state on a question reserved, growing out of a judgment of acquittal entered in the district court Of Major county by direction of the trial court in a case wherein the state of Oklahoma prosecuted Peter F. Duerksen on a charge of embezzlement. The charging part of the information upon which the prosecution was based is as follows:

“That the said Peter F. Duerksen, .in said county and state, on or about the 29th day of August, 1910, was the agent of Hiram S. Aumiller for the purpose of renting and receiving the rents therefor on the following tract of land then and…