Former Robertson County DA indicted

Former Robertson County District Attorney John Paschall has been indicted on the first-degree felony charge of misapplication of fiduciary funds.

Paschall is accused of misusing funds while serving as executor of Mariam Oscar’s estate. The Calvert resident died in 2004.

He turned himself into the Robertson County Sheriff’s Office shortly after the indictment was handed up Wednesday after a special prosecutor from the Texas Attorney General's Office presented his case. Paschall was released on a $30,000 personal recognizance bond.

The issue was first raised in lawsuit filed by attorney Ty Clevenger in 2011 on behalf of a distant relative of Oscar, and later on behalf of the Calvert Historical Foundation, which is the non-profit organization where Oscar wanted her remaining assets donated, according to her trust agreement. The civil suit was dismissed in August 2014.

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