State v. Davidson

Defendant was superintendent of the Dane county asylum from 1929 to November 30, 1941. In 1941 an investigation of the affairs of the institution was made by a committee of the Dane county board. This included an audit which reflected the accounts as of August 31, 1941. As a result of the audit and investigation, the district attorney filed an information charging embezzlement and false entries in nine counts. Each false-entry count relates to a transaction out of which a charge of embezzlement is made.

The first contention of defendant is that the prosecution is barred by the operation of…