117 Kan. 540 | Kan. | 1925
The opinion of the court was delivered by
On rehearing the defendant urges that a violation by a clerk of the district court of the statute referred to in the original opinion, forbidding county officers to retain any compensation or reward for doing anything appertaining to the duties of their office (R. S. 21-1607), is not a misdemeanor because the section fixing a penalty therefor has been repealed. The basis of the contention is this: Section 5 of the original act (Laws 1867, ch. 132; Gen. Stat. 1868, ch. 31, pp. 389-390), of which the provision above referred to formed section 3, subjected to a fine any state or county officer who should violate any of its provisions. Sections 1 .and 5 were amended in 1871 and in the amendment to section 5 (which fixed the penalty) the list of persons subject thereto included only public treasurers,
The fact that there is a statute requiring the clerk of the district court in counties having a population of more than 70,000 to deposit all funds with the county treasurer on the day after their receipt (R. S. 19-2613) does not avail the defendant for two reasons — it has never been acted upon by him, and it was not operative in Shawnee county until some time after March 1,1924, while the matters complained of took place largely in 1923.
The commissioner found that the defendant failed to file his four quarterly reports for 1923, for periods, respectively, of 4 months and 24 days, 2 months and 6 days, 24 days, and 1 month and 24 days beyond the time they were due by the mandatory terms of the statute, and during these periods retained moneys distributable to' the county and state. Whether or not these delinquencies in themselves amounted to a ground of ouster, they militate against the ex
The original judgment is adhered to and the defendant’s office is declared forfeited, the forfeiture to be operative upon the filing of this opinion.