Monroe v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of DeKalb. Tried before the Hon. James A. Bilbro. The indictment in this case, under which the appellant was tried and convicted, was preferred at the spring term, 1896, of the circuit court of DeKalb county, and was filed in open court on February 7, 1896. It contained four counts, which were as follows: 1. “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Samuel D. Monroe, who was then and there county treasurer…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of DeKalb. Tried before the Hon. James A. Bilbro. The indictment in this case, under which the appellant was tried and convicted, was preferred at the spring term, 1896, of the circuit court of DeKalb county, and was filed in open court on February 7, 1896. It contained four counts, which were as follows: 1. “The grand jury of said county charge that before the finding of this indictment Samuel D. Monroe, who was then and there county treasurer of DeKalb county, one of the counties of the State of Alabama, did knowingly convert to his own use nine thousand, three…
1Opinion of the CourtHead, J.
Section 3803 of the Code of 1886, reads as follows : “Any officer or person, who knowingly converts or applies any of the revenue of the State, or of any county thereof, to his own use, or to the use of any other person, must, on conviction, be punished as if he had stolen it.”
Section 3805 reads as follows: “Any probate judge, clerk of a court of record, register in chancery, sheriff,coroner, tax-collector, county treasurer, trustee of public *19schools, notary public, justice of the peace, or constable, who knowingly converts to his own use or permits another to use any money paid into his…
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