Knight v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Embezzlement. Appeal from Coosa Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. S. L. Brewer. Jim Knight was convicted of embezzlement, and appeals.
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Embezzlement. Appeal from Coosa Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. S. L. Brewer. Jim Knight was convicted of embezzlement, and appeals. For former report of this case see 147 Ala. 104. The money was not sufficiently described, and the demurrer going to that feature of the indictment should have been sustained. — Knight v. The State, supra; State v. Murphey, 6 Ala. 845; Du-13 ois v. The State, 50 Ala. 139; Grant v. The State, 55 Ala. 291; Burney v. The State, 87 Ala. 80. The name of the owner of the property was not sufficiently alleged.— Morningstar v. The State, 52 Ala. 405; Johnson v. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
The defendant was convicted of the embezzlement of a part of a certain sum of money, which was delivered to him in Coosa county, to be taken to Tal-ladega county and there deposited in a bank. When the case was before this court at a previous term it was held *58that, inasmuch as the evidence showed that the money was delivered to the defendant in Coosa county, to be carried to Talladega county, and that he did deposit a portion of the'money in the bank in Talladega county, the court could not say as a matter of law that the embezzlement took place in Coosa county; also that, in order to a…
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