People v. Sprado

The defendant, upon an information filed in the superior court in and for the county of Sacramento, was charged with and tried for felony embezzlement and convicted of petit embezzlement and thereupon sentenced to serve a term of six months in the county jail of the said county. He duly made an application for a new trial, and the same was denied. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment of conviction and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The information was based on section 508 of the Penal Code, which provides: “Every clerk, agent, or servant of any person who fraudulently…