Commonwealth v. Tuckerman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment on the Rev. Sts. c. 126, § 29, against the treasurer of the Eastern Railroad Corporation for embezzling bank bills for ¡§5000, the property of the corporation. Trial in the municipal court of Boston at December term 1856 before Abbott, J. The attorney for the Commonwealth called John B. Parker, for the purpose of proving confessions of the defendant.
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Indictment on the Rev. Sts. c. 126, § 29, against the treasurer of the Eastern Railroad Corporation for embezzling bank bills for ¡§5000, the property of the corporation. Trial in the municipal court of Boston at December term 1856 before Abbott, J. The attorney for the Commonwealth called John B. Parker, for the purpose of proving confessions of the defendant. The defendant’s counsel objected that these had been obtained and made under the influence and by means of encouragement and menace ; and, to establish this, called and examined Benjamin T. Reed, for the purpose of proving that he had…
1Opinion of the CourtMerrick, J.
The defendant was tried in the municipal court upon a charge of having committed the crime of larceny by the embezzlement of money which came into his possession and was under his care by virtue of his employment as the treasurer of the Eastern Railroad Company. This transaction consisted in the alleged fraudulent conversion of five thousand dollars belonging to that corporation, drawn from the Merchants’ Bank on the 26th of June 1855 by a check for that amount signed by him in his official capacity. The jury returned a verdict that he was guilty of embezzling bank bills to the amount and…
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