Pinnick v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted on a charge of embezzlement, and his punishment, fixed at two years in the penitentiary. Motion for new trial was filed, considered, overruled, exceptions saved, and the case appealed to this court.

The state, to sustain its allegations, called O. M. Kramer, the party whose money the defendant is alleged to have embezzled. Kramer testified that he had' employed the defendant to represent him in a lawsuit and to collect and remit to him for rentals for property belonging to him, located in the town of Yale, Olda., where the…