Lang v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Tried before Hon. Thomas M. Arrington. Tbe appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted, for embezzlement and sentenced to tbe penitentiary for two years.
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Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Tried before Hon. Thomas M. Arrington. Tbe appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted, for embezzlement and sentenced to tbe penitentiary for two years. Tbe indictment contains two counts, and was in tbe following language : (1.) “Tbe grand jury of said county charge that, before tbe finding of tbis indictment, Tbomas H. Lang, being tbe agent of tbe Montgomery Furniture Company, a partnership composed of George Hollander and Ed Etollander, did embezzle or fraudulently convert to bis own use, money to about tbe amount of two thousand dollars, tbe personal…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, O. J.
— The defendant was indicted for the crime of embezzlement; the sum charged to have been embezzled being about two thousand dollars. This form of averment of the subject of the crime, and of its value is sufficient under our statute. Code of 1886 § 3810. . The indictment was returned into court July 21, 1892, and contains two counts. The sufficiency of the first count was not assailed in the City Court pending the trial. Its sufficiency was attempted to be raised on a motion in arrest of judgment, and it is contended before us that it is insufficient. We hold the City Court did…
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