Ridge v. State

The appellant was convicted of a violation of §2285 Burns 1914, Acts 1905 p. 584, §392. The prosecution was by affidavit in two counts. The first count charged the embezzlement of $10,828.12 in money, and the second count charged the embezzlement of three promissory notes dated March 1, 1921, and being in the aggregate sum of $14,437.50. Each of the counts charged that the property alleged to have been embezzled was the property of the English-Princeton Oil Company, a common-law trust association; that the appellant was an employe of such English-Princeton Oil Company.

Appellant'filed a motion…