State v. Kahn

W. I. Kahn was convicted jointly with J. U. Albrecht for embezzlement. Before sentence, both defendants filed a motion for a new trial. The motion was granted as to Albrecht, but refused as to Kahn, and the latter was sentenced to serve six months at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Thereafter, the district attorney nolle prosequied the ease against Al*685breclit, and Kahn appealed, from his conviction and sentence.

The record contains excerpts from the testimony of some of the witnesses with a notation in each instance, by the clerk, of an objection by counsel for defendants, the adverse…