McCommon v. State

Defendant, John R. McCommon, was convicted of the offense of fraudulent breach of trust and his maximum punishment fixed at three years in the penitentiary.

Defendant was the operator of a truck line in the city of Memphis. This truck line seems to have been in the habit of handling a great many C. O. D. shipments for various shippers in that town. The business was started in the early part of the year 1946, and at that time a man by the name of Zaner was the bookkeeper. The record discloses that during the time Zaner was bookkeeper the accounts of defendant were in a state of confusion, and…