State v. . Hancock

Clark:, C. J.

The defendant, a trusted employee, as manager at Winston of a branch business, whose main office was at Memphis, Tenn., embezzled something over $3,100. He fled with some $2,500 of this and $100 of jewelry which he had bought with his employer’s money, and was arrested in San Francisco with $1,400 of the money on his person, unspent.

The record presents only two assignments of error.

1. “Because the verdict was against the weight of the-evidence.” This is a matter in the discretion of the trial judge. Bird v. Bradburn, 131 N. C., 488; State v. Rose, 129 N. C., 577; Edwards v.…