Hatcher v. State

-Hatcher was convicted of the crime of receiving stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen *114as defined in section 3304, General Statutes of 1906, Compiled Laws 1914, and took writ of error.

It is in effect contended here that the evidence shows an embezzlement by the servant of the owner from whom the goods were received, and not larceny of the goods by him; and that, though our statute makes embezzlement by a servant punishable as larceny, the statutes defining the crime of receiving stolen goods knowing them to have been stolen and the crime of receiving embezzled property knowing it to…