State v. . Whitehurst

BARNHILL, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of this case. Criminal prosecution in which the defendant as receiver of the Bank of Vanceboro is charged with embezzlement.

The indictment charges that in May, 1924, the defendant was duly appointed receiver for the Bank of Vanceboro, a State banking institution, and that, as such, in the exercise of a public trust and as agent, consignee, clerk, employee and servant of the court and of the depositors, stockholders and creditors of the insolvent bank, he was entrusted with and did receive and take into his possession and have under…