Cowart v. State

WALKER, Justice,

for the Court:

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, wherein appellant was indicted and tried on the charge of embezzlement under Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-23-19 (1972), and upon a jury verdict of guilty was sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the state penitentiary.

The indictment, as amended, charged that:

Charles Cowart . . . being then and there the agent, servant and employee of Aaron L. Ford, did then and there by virtue of said employment, as such agent and servant, have in his possession and…