State v. Morro

WHITE, J.-

The Grand Jury of Jackson County, October 26,' 1923, presented an indictment against the defendant, charging that December 26, 1922, while cashier of the Corn Exchange Bank, a corporation of Kansas City, he embezzled the sum of $4900, the property of that bank. February 28, 1924, the defendant was found guilty by a jury, his punishment assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, and he appealed from that judgment.

The evidence introduced by the State tended to show that the Corn Exchange Bank began business, in 1920, with the defendant as its cashier, which office he…