State v. . Windley

The charge in the indictment is that the defendant had unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously, as sheriff of Beaufort County, failed to pay over and deliver to the proper persons entitled to receive the same, when lawfully required to do so, certain money and funds which he had received by virtue or color of his office in trust, contrary to the provisions of the statute. The indictment was drawn under Rev. 3408, and this is stated in the brief of the State, which refers to the original statute, Code of 1883, sec. 1016, as having been amended, in consequence of the decision inS. v. Connelly,…