Crawford v. State

We have decided, for several reasons which seem to us valid, not to enter upon any outline of the facts of this ease, or of its complicated history, but will state only enough to lead up to, and to present, the point of practice which, in our opinion, necessitates a reversal of the judgment.

There is no proof, nor was there any attempt to make proof, that appellants converted a cent of the funds in question to their own use. Therefore, a conviction, if sustainable at all, must be under the complementary clause of the embezzlement statute, and under the theory that appellants fraudulently made…