State v. Fischer

The appellant, on a trial in the Circuit Court of Laclede County, on the seventeenth day of May, 1922, was found guilty of embezzlement, and his punish* ment assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the State penitentiary.

The defendant was a traveling salesman for G. D. Milligan Grocer Company, of Springfield. About the eleventh day of February, 1922, the manager of the company, Fred Holt; charged the defendant with being short in his accounts, and Fischer admitted that he had collected money which he had not turned in.

It was proven that in January and February, 1922, Fieher had collected and…