State v. Ross

The appeal is from a judgment in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, upon conviction of embezzlement. It is charged that the defendant, while acting as Deputy Commissioner of Finance of the State of Missouri, in charge of the assets of the Night & Day Bank in the city of St. Louis, November 24, 1922, embezzled $3,342.47, which came into his hands.

The evidence shows that John C. Hughes was appointed Bank Commissioner of the State of Missouri, in 1921, and later, when the office of Commissioner of Finance was created, he was appointed to that position in July, 1922. As Commissioner of…