Nack v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted of larceny as bailee of $6,554.15, and sentenced to four years in the state prison.

The facts, briefly stated, are as follows: Defendant, forty-seven years of age, divorced, lived in La Crosse about a block from Mrs. Mary Dittman, a widow for some six years. *635They were acquaintances since childhood. During the three years preceding the offense as charged, defendant and Mary Dittman were together a great deal and were intimate friends. On January 1, 1924, they went to Chicago to be married, but owing to the fact that Mary…