Shanks v. Commonwealth, on Relation, Etc.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Affirming.

During "the year 1'9'24 the appellant and defendant below, W. H. Shanks, was the duly elected, qualified and acting Auditor of Public Accounts for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. On August 7 of, that year he .procured a check from the State Treasurer payable to himself for the sum of $269.25, which he afterwards cashed and which was issued pursuant to a warrant that he as such Auditor of Public Accounts, through his deputy, issued in his individual favor for the same amount. This action was filed against him in the Franklin circuit court by the…