Tennant v. State

URBIGKIT, Justice.

This is a sufficiency of the evidence bailment embezzlement case involving an elderly veteran and the younger appellant, Robert Tennant (Tennant), age thirty-four. Tennant was assisting a veteran by disposition of his monthly income of about $1,657. For this assistance, Tennant was charged with bailment embezzlement, convicted after a bench trial, and sentenced to a jail term of four-to-six years.

We affirm.

After an acquaintanceship which started when the veteran, Vern Sherman (Sherman), was at a Veterans Administration domiciliary facility in Hot Springs, South Dakota,…