Scarboro v. State

Candler, Justice.

This case came to us on certiorari to the Court of Appeals. A grand jury in Houston County by a special presentment, containing eleven counts, charged and accused L. E. Scarboro with embezzlement. Each separate count alleged that the accused, at stated times, did unlawfully embezzle, steal, secrete, and fraudulently take and carry away certain money, checks, and vouchers belonging to the City of Warner Robins, Georgia, a municipal corporation and which came into his possession as its Chief of Police. The defendant demurred generally to all of the counts of the presentment and…