State v. Chivers

ODOM, Justice.

The defendant is charged with the crime of embezzlement under Section 905, Revised Statutes, as amended by Act 165 of 191.8-

■ It is charged in an affidavit that he embezzled $12,200.36 in currency which had been entrusted into his care, keeping, and possession by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the owner of said funds. He was arrested, and his bond was fixed at $5,000 by the judge of Section “A” of the Criminal District Court of the Parish of Orleans. Failing to make the bond, he was incarcerated in the parish jail.

He made application to the court for a…