State v. Wingett

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

The appeal in this action is by one of two defendants charged under R. S. 17-1020 as officers and agents of the American Building and Loan Association with conspiracy to defraud and with defrauding the association out of money, property and funds of the association to the amount of $1,600. The appellant herein asked for a separate trial, and he was tried alone and found guilty under the third count of the information, where the $1,600 had reference to a mortgage taken by the association on a certain property on Harrison street in Topeka,…