Commonwealth v. Warner
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment, under Pub. Sts. c. 203, § 41, for embezzlement of property of the Hampshire Savings Bank. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Fessenden, J., the jury returned a verdict of guilty; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The motion to quash and dismiss the indictment was rightly overruled. The property alleged to have been embezzled and stolen by the defendant is described in each of the counts of the indictment on which the defendant was convicted as “ a great quantity of money, to wit, the sum of five thousand dollars of the property of the said Hampshire Savings Bank.” It is contended that the indictment is insufficient, because it fails to make an express statement of the value of the money. Ordinarily, in indictments for larceny and other similar offences, the value of the property is stated in terms,…
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