Freeman v. United States

This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, seeking to reverse a judgment of that court affirming a conviction of the plaintiff in error of the crime of estafa (embezzlement) growing out of the alleged misappropriation of some 3,500 pesos received by him as manager of the steamship department of Castle Brothers, Wolf. & Sons. The sentence of the court of first instance was as follows;

“The court therefore finds the defendant,' Otis G. Free,man, guilty of embezzlement of the sum of p3,500 Phil ippines currency, as charged in the complaint, the property of Castle…