Sweeney v. State

The defendant was the trusted employee of Talladega Hardware Company, a partnership, etc., and as such had the custody of a stock of gun shells and building material belonging to the partnership. The shells were locked in a separate room from the general stock carried in the warehouse, and this defendant and the partners were the only ones who had a key to this room. The shells were in cases of 500 each, and each case had a value of $20. Upon a check of the stock of shells, 19 cases were gone. One case of the shells was traced through the drayman (Mose) to a man named Fuller. Mose testified…