State v. Anderson

Defendants’ contentions upon this appeal are two : (1) That the court erred in permitting the state to *624read into evidence the testimony of a witness temporarily absent from the state, who had previously testified upon the preliminary examination; (2) that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict. A brief statement of the facts may contribute to an understanding of the questions raised by these contentions.

For about ten years prior to 1931, defendants Anderson and Wendt were president and vice-president, respectively, of the Marquette Securities Company, a corporation engaged in the…