State v. Newman
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Indictment, for embezzlement of the funds of the Manchester News Publishing Company, a corporation of which the defendants were officers. Trial by jury and verdict of guilty. Transferred from the January term, 1906, of the superior court by Peaslee, J. The evidence for the state tended to prove that the Manchester News Publishing Company was organized in January, 1901, for the purpose of publishing a newspaper and doing job printing.
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Indictment, for embezzlement of the funds of the Manchester News Publishing Company, a corporation of which the defendants were officers. Trial by jury and verdict of guilty. Transferred from the January term, 1906, of the superior court by Peaslee, J. The evidence for the state tended to prove that the Manchester News Publishing Company was organized in January, 1901, for the purpose of publishing a newspaper and doing job printing. The defendant Davison was elected treasurer at the first meeting. The corporation issued no stock and acquired no property until several months later. In…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
“If any officer, agent, or servant of a corporation, public or private, . . . shall embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use any money, bill, note, or security for money, evidence of debt, or other effects or property whatever of such person or corporation, or in their possession or keeping, or shall knowingly or voluntarily pay or deliver any such money . . . to any person or to the order of any person, knowing that such person is not entitled to receive it, . . . he shall be fined,” etc. P. S., e. 2T3, s. IT.
There was evidence tending to show that the deposit in the First National…
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