Stull v. People

I respectfully disagree with the majority conclusion and reasoning that the evidence was legally insufficient and also with the alternative basis that there was error in connection with the “similar transaction” instruction to the jury. Since the case turns on insufficiency of evidence, it becomes necessary to analyze the facts in some detail.

*2951. The Question Whether the Evidence was Sufficient.

The important prosecution witness was Betty Keator, the active embezzler. She was the person in the position of trust who had obtained many' thousand dollars and had “given” most of it to the defendant…