Trotter and Arnold v. State

The plaintiffs in error have been convicted of conspiring to take and appropriate to their own benefit, by the use of false pretenses, certain public funds of Hamilton County. They were each sentenced to a term of three years in the penitentiary and have appealed in error to this court.

Trotter was the Chairman of the Hamilton County Board of Education and Arnold was a contractor engaged to erect a county school and to do other work for said county. The indictment charges that these two “did unlawfully and feloniously agree, confederate and conspire together to feloniously take and appropriate…