McCracken v. People

The plaintiffs in error, Ole G. McCracken and Enos E. McEldowney, were indicted by the grand jury of Cook county charged with larceny as bailees. The indictment alleged that the plaintiffs in error, on the first day of April, 1901, fraudulently and feloniously did embezzle and fraudulently convert to their own use a large amount of personal goods, funds, money and property, (describing current money of the United States in various denominations, bank bills and gold and silver coin of various denominations,) all of the value of $200; also one draft, the same then and there being an instrument…