Reeves v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ebom tbe Circuit Court of Bullock, on change of venue from Barbour. Tried before Hon. Jesse M. Cabmiohael. Tbe defendant in tbis case was indicted for embezzlement as a bank officer, was convicted, and sentenced to tbe penitentiary for tbe term of three years. Tbe indictment was found at tbe June term, 1891, and contained four counts.
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Ebom tbe Circuit Court of Bullock, on change of venue from Barbour. Tried before Hon. Jesse M. Cabmiohael. Tbe defendant in tbis case was indicted for embezzlement as a bank officer, was convicted, and sentenced to tbe penitentiary for tbe term of three years. Tbe indictment was found at tbe June term, 1891, and contained four counts. Tbe judgment-entry recites that tbe defendant “interposed a demurrer to tbe indictment, as shown by tbe record, which demurrer was overruled by tbe court;” but tbe grounds of demurrer are nowhere stated. On tbe trial, tbe State elected to proceed on tbe second…
1Opinion of the CourtThobington, J.
The statute under which the defendant was indicted declares, that “Any officer, agent, clerk, or servant of any bank incorporated under any la^v of this State, who embezzles, or fraudulently converts to his own use, or fraudulently secretes with intent to convert to his own us©, any money, property or effects, belonging to, or in the possession of such bank, or deposited therein, must be punished, on conviction, as if he had stolen it.” — Code, § 3796. *38This statute first appeared in tbe laws of tbis State in tbe Code of 1852, but there it embraced in its terms private bankers,…
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