State v. . Gentry

The statute, G. S., 14-90, under which defendant is indicted and convicted, provides in pertinent part that “If . . . any agent, . . . except persons under the age of sixteen years, of any person, shall embezzle or fraudulently or knowingly and willfully misapply or convert to his own use, or shall take, make away with or secrete, with intent to embezzle or fraudulently or knowingly and willfully misapply or convert to his own use any money, goods or other chattels ... or any other valuable security whatsoever belonging to any person . . . which shall have come into his possession or under…