State v. Frasher

Miller, Justice:

Eddie A. Frasher appeals his embezzlement conviction from the Circuit Court of Kanawha County. His primary assignments of error are that the state failed to prove that the true owner’s property was embezzled and that he was an agent within the meaning of the embezzlement statute, W. Va. Code, 61-3-20. Other assigned errors relate to rulings of the trial court on evidentiary points and instructions.

The defendant Frasher operated a business known both as Frasher’s Mail Service and Frasher License and Title Service. The chief function of the business was to expedite for…