State v. Bussa

Defendant appeals from his conviction and sentence for embezzling the funds of the Vivian State Bank while he was employed as cashier of the bank.

There are twenty-one bills of exception in the record, only eleven of which are urged before this court. But as some of these bills involve the same legal proposition, we have for the convenience of the discussion arranged them into five groups.

First. Defendant, prior to his trial, moved for the recusation of the district attorney, alleging he was a creditor and depositor of the bank whose funds defendant was charged with embezzling, and that he was…