Legal Opinion

State v. Alverson

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided April 8, 1898PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal from Iowa District Court. — Hon. M. J. Wade, Judge. Indictment for larceny. Trial to jury, and a verdict of guilty. Defendant filed a motion in arrest of judgment, which the court sustained, and the state appealed.

1Opinion of the CourtGranger,J.

*1541 *153— The defendant is an attorney at law, and was in the employ, as attorney, of Rosanna Meritt, executrix of the estate of M. Meritt, deceased; and the indictment is laid under section 3909 of the Co de of 1873, as follows: “If any attorney at law, collector or other person, who in any manner receives or collects money or any other property for the use of and belonging to another, embezzles or fraudulently converts to his own use * * * any money or property of another, * * * he shall be deemed guilty of larceny and punished accordingly.” The indictment charges that E. E. Alverson, at and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Taylor, Shipton & Co. v. RunyanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1856

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. State v. HellicksonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1968
  2. State v. FieldsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1898
  3. Territory of New Mexico v. HaleNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1905
  4. State v. FinnegeanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
  5. State v. FisherSupreme Court of Iowa · 1898

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