Gady v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From: the Criminal Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. S. E. Greene. Tbe indictment in -this case charged, in a single count, that the defendant, Ada Gady, “did embezzle, or fraudulently convert to her own use, or fraudulently secrete with intent to convert to her own use, eighty dollars in money, consisting of ten-dollar bills and twenty-dollar bills, currency of the United States of America, a more particular description of which money is unknown to the grand jury;…
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From: the Criminal Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. S. E. Greene. Tbe indictment in -this case charged, in a single count, that the defendant, Ada Gady, “did embezzle, or fraudulently convert to her own use, or fraudulently secrete with intent to convert to her own use, eighty dollars in money, consisting of ten-dollar bills and twenty-dollar bills, currency of the United States of America, a more particular description of which money is unknown to the grand jury; which said money was deposited with the said Ada Gady by Charlie Beed, the property of said Charlie Beed, of the value of…
1Opinion of the CourtSomebyille, J.
— 1. The amended return, made in response to the certiorari issued from this court, shows that the grand jury was regularly organized and impanelled, in accordance with the requirements of the statute. This obviates the objection in this particular, based on the original imperfect record, conceding that the objection was well founded.
2. The judgment of the court sentencing the defendant’ to hard labor to satisfy the costs was perfectly certain, the number of days of imprisonment being specified, as well as the amount of the costs. In this respect it was more full and definite than the…
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