State v. Collins

[1,2] The defendant was indicted for embezzling the funds of a corporation, and it appears from section 6828, Code of 1907, that the part thereof that relates to incorporated companies or municipal corporations, as distinguished from a private person or persons, uses the words “officer, agent or clerk,” and ■ not “servant.” The Legislature not only séems to make a distinction between “agent” and “servant” ' in wording the statute, but our court has held in Pullam’s Case, 78 Ala. 31, 56 Am. Rep. 21, that the word “agent,” as used in this statute, was not used in its broadest term so as to…