People v. Dettmering

Plaintiff in error was indicted, tried and found guilty in the circuit court of Randolph county on the charge of embezzling $500, alleged in one count of the indictment to be the property of the Farmers Bank of Steeleville, in said county, and in the second count as the property of William Ebers. This writ of error was thereafter sued out.

Plaintiff in error was about twenty-five years of age at the time of the trial. He had been employed as cashier of the Farmers Bank, located at Steeleville, in Randolph county, since 1910. In 1902 some fifty persons formed a co-partnership to do a banking…