State v. Mitchell
Mississippi Supreme Court
Eeom the circuit court of Jackson county. MoN. William H. Haedy, Judge. • Mitchell, appellee, and others were jointly indicted for knowingly received a deposit in an insolvent bank. A severance being granted, appellee was separately tried, and from a judgment of acquittal, predicated of a peremptory instruction ni his favor, the state appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Eeom the circuit court of Jackson county. MoN. William H. Haedy, Judge. • Mitchell, appellee, and others were jointly indicted for knowingly received a deposit in an insolvent bank. A severance being granted, appellee was separately tried, and from a judgment of acquittal, predicated of a peremptory instruction ni his favor, the state appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Nor a decision in this case on a former appeal, see State v. Mitchell, 95 Miss. 130, 48 South. 963.. In construing a statute the usual and proper mode is to ascertain the intention…
1Opinion of the Court
'Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of tbe court.
The appellant, along with certain other directors and managing officers of tbe Ocean Springs branch of tbe Scranton State-Bank, the parent bank being at Scranton, Miss., was indicted under tbe last half of section 1169 of tbe Code of 1906, which is in tbe following words:
“1169 (1089). The Same; Removing, Secreting or Concealing Assets of Banh, Receiving Deposits When Banh Insolvent, etc. — If the president, manager, cashier, teller, assistant, clerk,, or other employe or agent of any bank or broker’s office or establishment conducting tbe…
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