State v. Hodges

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

This was a criminal prosecution upon information in which the defendant, Ira M. Hodges, was charged in eight separate counts with the commission of eight separate and distinct embezzlements of property belonging to the State Bank of Irving, a banking corporation, as officer, cashier and secretary of such corporation. A trial was had before the court and a jury, and at the close of the evidence on the part of the state, the prosecution elected to dismiss the prosecution as to the eighth count and to proceed with the trial upon only the…