Yeager v. United States

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Appellant, defendant below, was convicted in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia of the crime of embezzlement. Erom the judgment, this appeal was prosecuted.

It appears that defendant was in the employ of the Washington Electric Company as bookkeeper, salesman, and collector; that it was a part of his duty to make deposits in the bank of all accrued money in the form of checks and otherwise; and that, for the purpose of deposit, he was authorized to indorse the name of the company on the checks so deposited. Instead of depositing the checks involved in…