Legal Opinion
State v. Hoffman
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided February 17, 1908No. 16,940PublishedCited by 20 opinions
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Edmund Dennis Miller, Judge. John H. Hoffman was convicted of a violation of Act 108, p. 144 of 1884, making it a crime for any officer of a bank to receive a deposit after he knows that the bank is insolvent, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPbovosty, J.
Act No. 108 of 1884, p. 144, reads:
“That it shall be a crime for any president, director, manager, cashier, or other officer, or owner of any private or public bank or banking institution in the state, to assent to the reception of any deposit, or the creation of any debt by such banking institution, after he shall have had knowledge of the fact that it is insolvent, or in failing circumstances.”
Defendant was the cashier of the Citizens’ Bank of Jennings, La. The bank received deposits on the 18th of February, 1905, and the next morning at 9 o’clock closed its doors. The grand jury indicted…
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