Ringo v. McFarland, County Judge

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

Joseph Malcolm Smith, a World War veteran, had, prior to June 20, 1928, been employed by the county judge of Daviess county as a clerical assistant in the quarterly court and by the county road engineer as such an assistant in his office. Smith drew a salary of $125 a month for the work thus done. He also drew a pension of $60 a month from the government. He was married, and had bought a home on St. Ann street in Owensboro. Outwardly he -lived a very abstemious life, but the truth was that he had embezzled a large sum of the county’s money from…