Blakeney v. State

This is an appeal by Anee Blakeney, a former supervisor of District No. 2 of Smith County, Mississippi, from a conviction and a three-year sentence in the State penitentiary under Section 2123, Code of 1942, reading as follows: “If any officer, or other person employed in any public office, shall commit any fraud or embezzlement therein, he shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than ten years, or in the county jail not more than one year, or be fined.”

On this appeal there are several alleged errors assigned for a reversal of the case: (1) The overruling of the demurrer to the…