State v. Cooke

“Embezzlement may be defined broadly as the fraudulent appropriation of another’s property by a person to whom it has been intrusted or into whose hands it has lawfully come”: 20 C. J. 407. The statute for the crime of embezzlement in this state is defined in Section 1955, Or. L. Property which may be embezzled in this state must be subject to larceny. The defendant is charged by indictment of embezzling “divers gold and silver coins, paper currency, bank bills and currency bills, lawful money of the United States of 'America, checks, notes, drafts, bonds, certificates of deposit, bills of…