State v. Thornton

Taylor, C.

Defendant was convicted of the crime of statutory grand larceny in the first degree. He appealed from the judgment and from an order denying a new trial.

The charge in the information, briefly stated, is that the defendant having in his possession, as agent of Louise A. C. Johnson, certificates of deposit and the proceeds thereof of the value of $2,500' for the purpose of investing the same for her in a first mortgage on real estate, feloniously appropriated the same to his OAvn use with the intent to deprive her of her property.

Although the question does not appear to have been…