State v. Bancroft
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Lyon District Court. Prosecution commenced against the appellant, E. P. Bancroft, by the State of Kansas, for the embezzlement of $9,000 of moneys belonging to the State Normal School, at Emporia, Kansas, being principal less three per cent, commission for the sale, and interest on sales, of normal school lands of the state of Kansas.
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Appeal from Lyon District Court. Prosecution commenced against the appellant, E. P. Bancroft, by the State of Kansas, for the embezzlement of $9,000 of moneys belonging to the State Normal School, at Emporia, Kansas, being principal less three per cent, commission for the sale, and interest on sales, of normal school lands of the state of Kansas. The amended information filed herein originally contained three counts, but the second •one was stricken out by the court, leaving the first and third •counts standing. To the information was attached and made a part thereof, a schedule containing in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
At the September term of the district court of Lyon county, Kansas, for the year 1878, the defendant was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to the state penitentiary for the term of five years. ' The information filed against defendant originally contained three counts, the first of which charges:
“That in May, 1872, one E. P. Bancroft was, by the board of directors of the state normal school at Emporia, duly appointed as agent for the sale of said state normal school lands, and continued to be such agent until June 6, 1877; and that during…
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