Thompson v. State

The special grounds of the amended motion for a new trial are concerned with the admission of the checks into evidence, and the statement of the court in the presence of the jury, at the time he overruled the objection to their admission, that a corporation must necessarily act through its agents and officers, that such officers would know more than individuals as to what funds the corporation had in the bank, and that it would be a legal presumption that the officers would know what the bank had belonging to the corporation; the objections to the latter ruling being that it was contrary to…