Dodd v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called •defendant, was convicted in the district court of Johnston county of embezzlement, and his punishment fixed by the jury at a fine of $24,000 and imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of three years.

Defendant was jointly charged with Anna L. Campbell, Charles L. Hulsey, Mrs. J. W. Hopkins, J. T. Gardner, and W. P. Cottrell, with the embezzlement of $12,000 of the sinking funds of school district No. 29, in Johnston county, and on the 8th day of November, 1929, the state proceeded with the trial of the defendant. Thereafter, and on the 25th…