Johnson v. State

EDWARDS^ J.

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Muskogee county of larceny by fraud, and was sentenced to serve a term of four years in the penitentiary.

At the time charged defendant was manager of a gin belonging to the Muskogee Gin & Cotton Company. The evidence for the state discloses that he fraudulently issued a check on the gin company signed by himself as manager to one L. C. Cochran, in the sum of $128.30, that the cheek was not given for cotton, but was issued to Cochran without consideration on a prearranged plan by which…