Arizona Power Co. v. State

An information was filed against the appellant, charging it with violating sections 705 and 706 of the Penal Code of 1913, in failing and refusing to pay one of its employees the wages due the employee at the time of his quitting the service. The sections referred to read as follows:

“705. Whenever an employee quits the service or is discharged therefrom, such employee shall be paid whatever wages are due him, in lawful money of the United States of America, or by cheek of even date, on a bank, and said wages shall be paid at once.

“706. Every contractor mentioned in section 704 hereof, and…