State v. Ossendorf

Appellant, Ossendorf, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Iron County, Missouri, on a charge of embezzling, as bailee, eleven head of cattle and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years. He appealed.

The evidence introduced by the state reveals the following. The defendant operated a dairy farm near Hillsboro, Missouri, while the prosecuting witness, Frank A. Sodar, operated a store in Hillsboro. In the spring and summer of 1943, cattle were purchased by them under the following circumstances. Sodar furnished the money with which Ossendorf purchased seventeen…