O'Marrow v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of embezzlement, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

1. Appellant insists that he was a partner of the prosecuting witness, Mr. Morris, and that the money converted, if converted, was partnership funds, and that one who appropriates money belonging to a partnership is not guilty of embezzlement, and cites us to many authorities. These we do not deem it necessary to discuss, for it is doubtless true that one who appropriates to his use partnership effects is not guilty of embezzlement under our…