Evans v. State

Appellant was convicted under an indictment charging him with the embezzlement of "money and checks, or money or checks to the amount of about $5,720 and of that value." He was sentenced to three years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

His principal contention on appeal is that the evidence is not sufficient to support the verdict and that the court should have granted defendant's motion to exclude the State's evidence at the conclusion of the State's case.

The transcript presents a tangled mass of testimony, so confusing that when the State first rested and defendant moved to exclude the…