State v. Chance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Alvin C. Chance was convicted under the statute (Gen. Stat. 1868, ch. 31, § 131; Gen. Stat. 1909, § 2621) forbidding the making of false entries in a book of accounts kept by a moneyed corporation. He appeals upon the ground that the Chicago Lumber and Coal Company, whose books he was accused of falsifying, being merely a mercantile organization, was not á “moneyed corporation” within the meaning of the section under which he was prosecuted, which reads:

“Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall make any false entries, or shall falsely…