Cottrell v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Johnston county of the crime of embezzlement, and his punishment fixed by the jury at a fine of $24,000 and imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of three years.

The evidence of the state was that on and for a long time prior to the 7th day of December, 1926, Anna L. Campbell, a daughter of J. C. Dodd, was the treasurer of the board of education of school district No. 29 in Johnston county; that J. C. Dodd, Mrs. J. W. Hopkins, and Charles L. Hulsey constituted the board of education of said…