Ciulla v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is embezzlement, a felony; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

Appellant is an attorney-at-law. Letha Scott, a negress, who had shot her husband and was under complaint charging her with assault with intent to murder, employed appellant to defend her. It appears from the state’s testimony that she had not known appellant until he called at the jail and requested her to employ him. According to her testimony, a fee of two hundred and fifty dollars for the examining trial was agreed upon. After the examining trial, the fee was fixed in the…