State v. Bunton

In February, 1923, the defendant was indicted by the grand jury of DeKalb County for larceny and embezzlement. The charge was in two different counts of the same indictment. He took a change of venue to Andrew County and was there tried in November, 1924, his trial resulting in a conviction for the larceny-and an assessment of three years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, and an acquittal of the embezzlement.

He was president of the Exchange Bank at Mays-ville, DeKalb County, from the year 1911 to January, 1923, when the bank failed. Susan D'uncan had been cashier of the bank for several…