Morse v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 30. — PROSECUTION AGAINST' P. H. MORSE FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. — Jume 17. Appeal from Kenton Circuit Court. W. MoD. Shaw, Circuit Judge. Defendant convicted and appeals — AUTHORITIES CITED. 1. A peremptory instruction should have been given. (Roberson on Ky. Crim. Law, vol. 1, sec. 445, p. 642; Amer. & Eng.
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CASE 30. — PROSECUTION AGAINST' P. H. MORSE FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. — Jume 17. Appeal from Kenton Circuit Court. W. MoD. Shaw, Circuit Judge. Defendant convicted and appeals — AUTHORITIES CITED. 1. A peremptory instruction should have been given. (Roberson on Ky. Crim. Law, vol. 1, sec. 445, p. 642; Amer. & Eng. Ency. of Law, vol. 6, pp. 465, 473 and 474; Russell on Crimes-, vol. 2, sec. 188; Stone v. Commonwealth, 104 Ky., 220.) 2. The court erroneously permitted incompetent testimony. (Russell on Crimes, vol. 3, sections 300, 294 and 288; Snapp v. Commonwealth, 83 Ky., 179.) 3. The court erred in…
1Opinion of the Court
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Judge Carroll —
Affirming.
The appellant wa's indicted under section 1202 of the Kentucky Statutes of 1903, providing in part that: “If any officer, agent, clerk or servant of any bank or corporation shall embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use or the use of another, money * * * belonging to such bank or corporation * * * which shall have come into his possession * * * as such officer, agent, clerk or servant, * * * he shall be confined in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than ten years.” The indictment charged that appellant, who was indicted as…
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