Manning v. State

1. “Section 192 of the Penal Code of 1910 reads as follows: ‘If any person who has been intrusted by another with any money, note, bill of exchange, bond, cheek, draft, order for the payment of money, cotton, or other produce, or cmy other article or thing of value [italics ours], 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 by imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor longer than five years.’ When this section is properly construed, the…