State v. Willis

Willis was indicted for illegally receiving a deposit in the Knoxville Banking & Trust Company, while acting as cashier thereof. A demurrer was interposed to the indictment which was sustained and the indictment quashed. The State has appealed in error to this court.

The indictment is founded on chapter 44 of the Acts of 1911. That act reads as follows:

“That hereafter it shall be a felony for any officer or officers, agent or agents, or any other person or persons, having the control or management of any bank in this State, to receive, assent to the reception *415of, or permit the reception of,…