State v. Leahy

Defendant, as agent and employee of the ¡city of New Orleans, and while serving as the secretary of the commissioner of public finance of that city, is charged with the embezzlement of forty-six coupons of the Lafayette. Securities Company, Inc., of the value •of $1,495, intrusted to his keeping by his employer, the city of New Orleans.

Defendant was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to serve not less than two nor more than four years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary and, on appeal, presents for the consideration of this court four bills of exception.

Bill No. 1.

Defendant was tried…