The People v. Dewachter

Plaintiff in error (hereinafter called the defendant) was indicted in the circuit court of Rock Island county on charges of felonious embezzlement and fraudulent and felonious conversion to his own use of funds of the Commercial Savings Bank. The indictment, containing twenty-six counts, was based upon paragraphs 208 and 209 of the Criminal Code. (Smith's Stat. 1931, pp. 1030-31.) Upon waiver of a jury he was tried before the court and found guilty upon the 1st, 2d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, nth, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 22d, 23d, 25th and 26th counts. The other counts, which were…