Synnott v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Cleveland county on a charge of embezzlement, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the state penitenitary for 2V2 years.

The record discloses that defendant was appointed guardian for William Dixon, an incompetent, on November 26, 1920, and as such guardian received $1,330 of his ward’s money. He used these funds to purchase in his own name stock in the Norman Mercantile Company, of which company he was president, and in which he already owned a large part of the stock. This purchase of stock…