Ellis v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to review a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county: Jaimes O’Neill, Circuit Judge. Writ of error to review a conviction for the offense of receiving money into a bank for the credit of a depositor with knowledge, or good reason to know, that the bank was unsafe or insolvent, contrary to sec. 4541, Stats.
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ERROR to review a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county: Jaimes O’Neill, Circuit Judge. Writ of error to review a conviction for the offense of receiving money into a bank for the credit of a depositor with knowledge, or good reason to know, that the bank was unsafe or insolvent, contrary to sec. 4541, Stats. (1898). The accused, during the time stated in the indictment, was president of the Security Savings Bank, a duly organized banking corporation under the laws of tbis state, located at Ashland, Wisconsin. The indictment contained three counts, each for a violation of sec.…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
In the foregoing statement we have avoided going into details or dealing much with figures, except in the way of generalizations. There is such a r~ ass of things in the record that any attempt to state it in detail would fail of accomplishing any valuable purpose and probably would leave the situation more or less involved in confusion.
The legal questions are few in number and will be presented in their logical order.
The fact that the deposit relied upon in the second count in the indictment was a check does not militate against its satisfying the call of sec. 4541, Stats. (1898), for a…
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