Legal Opinion

Swann v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided April 20, 1916PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal from Marion Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the Court

*566Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke.

Affirming.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted under section 1202 of the Kentucky Statutes of embezzling money, the property of Lodge No. 53 of the “United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten for the State of Kentucky and its Jurisdiction,” a Kentucky corporation, of which appellant was the treasurer.

Appellant insists that the Commonwealth failed to prove that the society, whose property the embezzled funds were, was a corporation, and that as it was necessary for this fact to have been proven, it was error in the trial court to…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Morse v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1908
  2. Gordon v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1910

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Runyon v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1926
  2. Bimbo v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1936
  3. Carter v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1949
  4. McGlothen v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1949
  5. Commonwealth v. Southern Railway Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1918

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