Mays v. State

delivered tbe opinion of the Court.

The defendant was found guilty of embezzling funds belonging in part to Knox County and in part to the State of Tennessee from the office of a court clerk. He was given a maximum sentence of three years and has appealed in error to this Court.

The first assignment of error challenges the action of the trial Judge in overruling a motion to quash the indictment.

The indictment was drawn under Section 11642 of the Code of 1932. Prior to the enactment of the Code, as our cases will show, there had been some confusion, .as to the form of indictments of this nature,…