State v. Rogers

WHITE, J.-

Defendant was tried in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis on charge of embezzling, August 15, 1924, as bailee, $265, the property of Casey P. Adams. On trial by jury, June 29, 1926, he was found guilty and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for two years. Judgment followed, from which he appealed.

The State introduced evidence to show that in August, 1924, he obtained from Alice B. Adams, wife of Casey Adams, the sum of $150, and later $200 from Casey P. Adams, to be taken by him and paid to one F. C. Blase, as earnest money in part payment of the…