Speaker v. State

The defendant was indicted (together with another, who was acquitted), for the offense of embezzlement. The indictment charged that Harry A. Speaker, an officer,, agent, or clerk of the W. D. Wood Lumber Company, a body corporate, did embezzle, or fraudulently convert to his own use, or to the use of another, or did fraudulently secrete with intent to convert to his own use, or the use of another, certain building materials aggregating several hundred dollars in value, etc.

[1] Before entering upon the trial, the defendant, under section 6876, Code 1907, filed a sworn plea denying the…