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State v. Goode

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided April 21, 1886PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from Page District Court. The indictment in this case charged that the defendant “ being over sixteen years of age, and the agent and servant of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation, * * * did then and there have, receive and take into his possession, by virtue of his employment * * * twelve hundred dollars, * * . * being the money of the said Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company, said defendant’s employer, and that he, (the…

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Appeal from Page District Court. The indictment in this case charged that the defendant “ being over sixteen years of age, and the agent and servant of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation, * * * did then and there have, receive and take into his possession, by virtue of his employment * * * twelve hundred dollars, * * . * being the money of the said Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company, said defendant’s employer, and that he, (the defendant) did then and there unlawfully, feloniously and fraudulently embezzle and convert to his own use,” etc. A trial upon…

1Opinion of the Court

Adams, Ch. J.

1. instkucversa! for IT-prejudice!”* I. The defendant complains of the giving of an instruction in these words: “If you find from the evidence that the defendant * * * was in the employ of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company, as its agent or servant, and that by virtue of said employment he received money belonging to said railroad company, as charged in the indictment, and that he embezzled and fraudulently converted the same to his own use, or that he took and secreted-said money with the intent to convert the same to his own use, without the consent of said…

2Cited by9 opinions

  1. State v. EanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1894
  2. State v. BrooksSupreme Court of Iowa · 1892
  3. Davis v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898
  4. State v. AndersonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1904
  5. St. Louis & S. F. R. Co. v. LedbetterSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1921

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