Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1908 — JACK GRAVES ACQUITTED. [ARTICLE]

JACK GRAVES ACQUITTED.

Jury in Second Trial Returns Verdict Not Guilty.

Warsaw, Ind., April 11. —A jury in the Kosciusko County Circuit court yesterday afternoon returned a verdict of not guilty in the embezzlement case against Jack Graves, attorney, of this city, who was accused of wrongfully appropriating $2,250 belonging to the ArbuckleRyan Harvester Company, of Toledo, 0., of which he was the legal representative. It was the second trial of the case, the jury in the first instance returning a verdict of guilty, fixing the punishment at SIOO fine and thirty days in jail. A new trial was granted, and the defendant then took a change of venue from Judge L. W. Royse. Judge Samuel E. Cook, of Huntington, presided at the second trial Growing out of the conviction in the first instance disbarment proceedings were filed against Mr. Graves, which are still pending.