State v. Williams

Defendant was charged, tried, and convicted of embezzlement under the provisions of section 28-543, R. R. S. 1943. Several assignments of error are made but they all relate to the question of whether or not the defendant is one of the class of persons within the purview of the above section of the statutes. The information charges the embezzlement was committed by the defendant “while charged with the collection, receipt, safekeeping and transfer of public money.” The evidence shows the defendant was at the times pertinent herein a member of the police department of the city of Grand Island…