Knight v. State ex rel. City of East Chicago

HOFFMAN, Presiding Judge.

Defendant-appellant James Knight, controller for the city of East Chicago, appeals the trial court's judgment in favor of plaintiff-appellee State of Indiana in the State's action to recover $76,276.00 in misappropriated public funds.

The facts favorable to the judgment disclose that from 1972 to 1975, Robert Pas-trick, mayor of East Chicago, directed Joseph Rakowski, superintendent of the East Chicago Sanitary District, to use public funds to purchase toasters, clocks, and other gifts for distribution to the citizens of East Chicago. The supplier of the gifts, Leonard…