Dick v. State

The traverser in this case was indicted in the Circuit Court for Allegany County for embezzlement, was tried before a jury, convicted and sentenced to confinement in the Maryland House of Correction for one year.

Section 103 of Article 27 of the Code declares that any “cashier, servant, agent or clerk to any person, or to any body corporate, who shall fraudulently, embezzle any money * * * received or taken into possession by him, for or in the name, or on the account of his master or employer, shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from his master or employer.”

The indictment…