Martin v. Karel

On January 8, 1932, the County Solicitor for Orange County, Florida, caused to be filed in the Criminal Court of Record for that County three informations against W. E. Martin, who occupied the office of Tax Collector of that County and who had held such office continuously since January 1, 1928, charging him with embezzlement of County funds in the sum of thirty-seven thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-four cents.

The first information charged embezzlement during the year 1928 of seventeen thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars and eleven cents. The second charged…