Stringer v. State

Embezzlement, sentence: one year and one day imprisonment.

The appellant, Mayor of Hobson City, Alabama, was indicted by the October 1977 Grand Jury of Calhoun County on one count of forgery and one count of embezzlement. Both charges involved check in the amount of $171.69 dated October 31, 1974, issued by the town of Hobson City to William Malone. The check was signed by the appellant and the City Clerk, Margaret Ball, and was endorsed in the names of William Malone and the appellant.

William Malone testified that he had previously been employed by Hobson City as the fire chief. He left the…