Moody v. People

Defendant was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary upon an information filed December 8, 1913, charging him with embezzlement. The property alleged to have been stolen is described as “one bank check of the value of $3,800.00 of the personal property of Rosa Bruggebos.”

Our statute (S. L. 1907, p. 342) provides:

“Whoever fraudulently converts to his own use money, goods or property of any other person, delivered to him, which is the subject of larceny, shall be deemed guilty of larceny and punished accordingly.”

Embezzlement is common law larceny extended by statute to cover cases where…