State v. Gillis
Mississippi Supreme Court
FROM the circuit court of Winston county. Hon. Gr. 'B. Huddleston, Judge. The appellee was indicted under § 1063, code 1892, which is in these words: “If any state officer, or any county officer, or .an officer in any district or subdivision of a county, or an officer ■of any city, town, or village, or a notary public, or any other-person holding any public office or employment, or any executor, administrator or guardian, or any trustee of an express trust, any master or…
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FROM the circuit court of Winston county. Hon. Gr. 'B. Huddleston, Judge. The appellee was indicted under § 1063, code 1892, which is in these words: “If any state officer, or any county officer, or .an officer in any district or subdivision of a county, or an officer ■of any city, town, or village, or a notary public, or any other-person holding any public office or employment, or any executor, administrator or guardian, or any trustee of an express trust, any master or commissioner or receiver, or any attorney at law or solicitor, or any banker or collecting agent, or ■other person engaged…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
The indictment does aver, as we think, that the defendant had the money, which he had received in the years stated, in his hands on March 1, 1893, and failed to pay it over when ordered to do so. After stating that defendant was guardian on March 1, 1893, and had received during the years 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892 (without saying in what part of the year 1892), the sums of money, it then avers that he was “then and there,” on March 1, 1893, due his ward said money; and then avers that, ‘ ‘ so having said money in his hands, received as aforesaid, it was then and there his duty to…
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