Miller v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is misapplication of public funds; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for four years.

Appellant, who was .tax collector of Foard county, was indicted under article 95, P. C., in five counts. Two of the counts were submitted to the jury in the court’s charge, namely, a count charging misapplication of public funds, and another charging the secreting of public funds belonging to Foard county with intent to misapply such funds. The facts, so far as they illustrate the law points discussed, are, briefly, as follows: The state’s case in the main was made by…