State v. Stringer

The appellant was convicted of the crime of embezzlement. The charge, specifically, was that, in his employment selling ice, be had collected $25 for his employer and appropriated it to his own use.

Among the bills of exception is one that was reserved to the judge’s refusal to give any of the following special charges requested by defendant’s attorneys, viz.:(1) That, in order to convict the defendant of embezzlement, the state had to prove that a demand was made on him for the money alleged to have been embezzled, or that he actually converted it to his own use.(2) That a failure of the…