Laycock v. State

James H. Laycock, the appellant in this case, was the defendant in the criminal court of Marion county, charged with embezzling from “Hoosier Lodge, No. 261, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,” the sum of two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty cents in money, the property of said lodge, etc.

In the second count of the indictment, it is charged that the money alleged to have been embezzled belonged to one James F. Lee, but there is no claim made whatever on the second count of the indictment, and it is not before us for our consideration.

The first count of the indictment, omitting the…