State v. Woodward

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Min turn, J.

The defendant was convicted of the crime of embezzlement, upon the following state of facts: The de fend ant received certain tools in the county of Mercer, and at that rime stated that he knew a person in Chesterfield township, county of Burlington, New Jersejr, to whom he thought he could sell the tools for the complaining witness (the owner); that he took the tools as aforesaid with the understanding that if he succeeded in making the sale he should bring the money, received from the sale thereof, to the son of the complaining witness,…