Hagood v. State

George S. Hagood was indicted by the grand jury of Chatham county for a violation of section 194 of the Penal Code. This section reads as follows: “If any person who has been intrusted by another with any money, note, bill of exchange,, bond, check, draft, order for the payment of money, cotton or other produce, or any other article or thing of value, for the purpose of applying the same for the use or benefit of the owner or person delivering it, shall fraudulently convert the same to his own use, he shall be punished,” etc. The indictment contained twenty-one counts, varying the charge only…