Rogers v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appellant, Charles A. Rogers, seeks a reversal of his conviction of the crime of embezzlement on which he has been sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. Two similar judgments against him have heretofore been affirmed. Rogers v. Commonwealth, 264 Ky. 187, 94 S. W. (2d) 345; Rogers v. Commonwealth, 264 Ky. 220, 94 S. W. (2d) 661.

The charge upon which Rogers was tried in this case is that while he was acting as the city tax collector of Owensboro he embezzled $170.85, received by him in payment of taxes by the trustee in bankruptcy…