State v. Shour
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Livingston Circuit Court.—Hon. J. W. Alexander, Judge. (1) Defendant was charged with taking a specific amount upon a specific day from an incorporated company, being charged under the general embezzlement act. It should not have been permissible to offer evidence of smaller amounts for any other reason than to characterize the taking of the specific amount set forth in the information.
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Appeal from Livingston Circuit Court.—Hon. J. W. Alexander, Judge. (1) Defendant was charged with taking a specific amount upon a specific day from an incorporated company, being charged under the general embezzlement act. It should not have been permissible to offer evidence of smaller amounts for any other reason than to characterize the taking of the specific amount set forth in the information. (2) Defendant, by the information, was charged with being a secretary of a building and loan association; he could not be prosecuted under the special statute of embezzlement, but must be…
1Opinion of the CourtFox, J.
This cause is here upon appeal by the defendant from a judgment of conviction in the Livingston Circuit Court at its May term, 1905, upon an information filed by the prosecuting attorney charging the defendant with the embezzlement of money belonging to the Farmer’s Loan and Building Association, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Missouri in 1887, and doing business in Chillicothe, Livingston county, Missouri, at the time of the trial. This prosecution and judgment is predicated upon the following information by the prosecuting attorney; omitting formal parts, it is as…
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