Dupuy v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is embezzlement; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for four years.

The proof on the part of the State was to the effect that appellant was the duly elected collector and assessor of taxes of the Marlin Independent School District, and that he embezzled approximately six thousand dollars belonging to said district, which had come into his possession by virtue of his office as tax collector. The State proved that the school board did not consent to appellant’s conversion of said money. Testifying in his own behalf, appellant denied that he had ever…