State v. . Pace

By indictment in seven counts the defendant is charged with embezzlement of funds which came into his hands as treasurer and acting recording secretary of Jeff Davis Council, No. 63, Junior Order United American Mechanics. Receipt of the money is admitted; likewise, its irregular handling. Indeed, the defendant’s own testimony would carry the case to the jury. When an agent, entrusted with funds belonging to his principal, withdraws several items from the general account (according to his own statement), and places the withdrawals in a safe without sufficient reason therefor, soon or late, he…