Sanders v. State

Appellant, W. P. Sanders, was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Sunflower county, under section 1141, Code of 1906 (Hemingway’s Code, section 869), of embezzling', while superintendent of education of Sun-flowed county, seventeen thousand five hundred, sixty-seven dollars and sixty-three cents of the funds belonging to said county, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of five years, from which judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant was superintendent of education of Sunflower county for the years of 1917 to 1924, inclusive. Under chapter 249: of the Laws of…