Case Name: OSBORN v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1953-02-04
Citations: 256 S.W.2d 89
Docket Number: No. 26239
Parties: OSBORN v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 256
Pages: 89–90

Head Matter:
OSBORN v. STATE.
No. 26239.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 4, 1953.
Rehearing Denied March 18, 1953.
M. Gabriel Nahas, Jr., and James Roy-all, Houston, for appellant.
William H. Scott, Crim. Dist. Atty., and King C. Haynie, Asst. Crim. Dist., Atty., Houston, George P. Blackburn, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
WOODLEY, Judge.
Upon a trial before the court, a jury being waived, appellant was convicted of embezzlement of Twenty-Five Dollars in money and the court assessed his punishment at one day in jail and a fine of $25.
The evidence shows that appellant was a chiropractor and was engaged on a full-time basis as an employee of J. W. Parker, another chiropractor, as director of the clinic operated in Houston under the name J. W. Parker Chiropractic Clinic.
The contract of employment offered in evidence provides, in part, that appellant "shall at all times devote his whole time, skill, attention and energies to the management, superintendence and direction" of the clinic; that appellant should make full and complete daily or weekly deposits-of all monies received by him in the operation of the clinic.
The contract also expressed the purpose and intent of the parties that a full, complete and accurate accounting should be made to the employer of all monies re ceived and professional services rendered by appellant, in or out of the clinic, regardless of the time of day or night, in the records provided by the employer.
Another provision of the employment contract was that all monies received by appellant should be deposited to the account of the employer in the South Main State Bank, or turned over to the employer, if possible on the day of receipt.
Under the contract appellant was to receive from his employer $300 per month plus a percentage of the gross income, to be determined at the end of each quarter and paid within two weeks thereafter.
Sgt. Joe C. Jones testified that he took his wife to said clinic on May 18, 1952, for X-ray treatments, and delivered to appellant his check for $25 in payment for the services rendered by appellant to his wife. The payee's name was omitted from the check.
Dr. Parker testified as to the contract. He also testified that appellant admitted to him that he took care of the patient and received the money from Sgt. Jones, and did not report the collection as provided in the contract; that he was not indebted to appellant, having paid him in advance throughout his employment, with final payment of $59.10, being the full amount of salary and commission due the day he dismissed appellant from his employment. The amount of the Jones check was not taken into consideration in this settlement.
Mrs. R. L. Taylor, receptionist and bookkeeper at the clinic, testified that she heard appellant say that he received the check and needed the money, so he took it. She testified further that appellant did not report the check to her; that appellant had been paid in advance, though she had heard him complain, that he was not paid.
Appellant testified in his own behalf and admitted that he received the check for $25 from Sgt. Jones, inserted his name as payee and used the money he received on the check to feed his family; that he advised Mrs. Taylor about the Jones case and told her to make proper entry, including "posting these funds"; that he believed he did not get paid what was owing to him on the books. Also appellant testified that he made the entry showing the receipt of the $25, and that he said to Mrs. Taylor, "You take ten dollars and I will take the fifteen, as we need this more than they do in Dallas."
The trial judge, as the trier of the facts, accepted the state's version of the affair and found that appellant appropriated to his own use the $25 which he received from the Jones check, which under his contract of employment should have been reported and deposited to the account of his employer. The evidence from the standpoint of the state sustains his finding.
Appellant's testimony, at best, raised an-issue as to his intent in appropriating the $25, which issue was resolved against him by the trial judge.
The facts are deemed sufficient to sustain the conviction- and there are no bills-of exception.
The judgment is affirmed.