Showalter v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Martinsburg; Charles A. Woods, Judge. Howard W. Showalter was convicted of misapplying bank funds, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
The plaintiff in error will be called the defendant, the position he had below. For a number of years prior to August, 1915, he had been vice president of the First National Bank of Fairmont, W. Va., and one of its directors and large stockholders. He was its ranking officer, in regular daily attendance. The jury might well have found that its affairs had long been very largely under his control. It once had had, and still publicly claimed, a capital of $200,000, and a surplus of $100,000. The comptroller of the currency had made up his mind that the surplus, and much, if…
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