Couture v. State

The appellant was found guilty at a court trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County of embezzlement and sentenced to be confined to the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction for the term of 5 years. He contends that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain the conviction. The contention involves the fine legal distinction between embezzlement and larceny and other lar cenous takings which has presented a dilemma to trial and appellate courts in all those jurisdictions in which such unlawful appropriations have been maintained as separate and distinct crimes.

The crime of which…