State v. McWhinney

Predicated upon the statute (Law's of 1915, chapter 165, p. 493, Rem. Rev. Stat., § 2601 [P.P.C. § 117-47]), which provides that

“Every person who, with intent to deprive or defraud the owner thereof . . .

“(3) Having any property in his possession, custody or control, as bailee, . . . servant, . . . agent, . . ,, employee, . . . shall secrete, withhold or appropriate the same to his own use . . . shall be guilty of larceny,’5

an information, reading as follows, charging defendant with the crime of grand larceny was filed in the superior court for King county:

“He, the said H. L. McWhinney, in…