State v. Matthews

This is an appeal by the State from a judgment of the criminal court of Knox county, sustaining a plea “of tender and payment” filed by the defendant, E. Q. Matthews, to an indictment returned against Mm 'by the grand jury of the criminal court of Knox county, charging him with embezzlement, and discharging the defendant from further custody under said indictment.

It is insisted by the State that the indictment contains four counts, the first and third charging that the defendant, as the agent of the Knoxville Credit Reporting Company, a corporation, by virtue of his employment, received into…