Wiley v. State

BRETT, Judge.

Plaintiff in error, L. W. Wiley, defendant below, was charged by information in the District Court of Muskogee County, Oklahoma, with the crime of embezzlement, 21 O.S.1951 § 341, while an assistant county attorney, in that he appropriated to his own use and benefit a sum alleged to be $294.75, paid to him by certain defendants' as fines and costs and received by him on behalf of and for account of the City Court of Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was tried by a jury, convicted, and his punishment fixed at a $500 fine and imprisonment in the state penitentiary for one year. The trial…