Boyenton v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in error was prosecuted and convicted under the provisions of an act of Assembly approved Feb-*843ruary 12, 1894, entitled “an act relating to the receiving of deposits by insolvent bankers, brokers or an officer of' a bank.” Acts 1893-4, p. 222.

That act is as follows:

“1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That any banker, whether State or private, any broker or officer of any trust or savings institution or of any State, bank, or employee of any private banker, who shall take and receive money from a depositor with the actual knoAvledge that the said banker, broker…