Howell v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is misapplication of public funds; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for seven years and six months.

Appellant entered a plea of guilty before a jury.. He now contends that the evidence adduced'by the State upon the trial shows his innocence. We are unable to agree with this contention. The proof on the part of the State was to the effect that appellant’s accounts were short in approximately the sum of twenty thousand dollars. The ¿State "introduced appellant’s vol untary statement, which, omitting the formal parts, reads as follows:

“My name is E. N.…