Roland v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the court by

Judge Hobson

Affirming.

M. W. Roland was the prison clerk of the Kentucky penitentiary at Frankfort, Ky., and as such had the custody of the money belonging to convicts in the penitentiary. The rule was that, when a convict came the money that he had or that he afterwards received was taken from him and put in the hands of the prison clerk to keep, and, as he paid it out for the convicts, he credited himself with the amount so paid out. After he had been in office some years, he confessed to one of the commissioners that he was behind in his accounts, and, an…