Adams v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal was submitted without oral', argument on April 22, 1965.

Adams stands convicted on six counts of embezzling, in all some $16,600, from Mrs.. Flora R. Thorpe. After pronouncement, of verdict, allocutus and adjudication of guilty, the trial judge sentenced Adams to ten years imprisonment. Code 1940, T. 14,. § 126, as amended, and § 133.

That Adams and Mrs. Thorpe were partners and hence embezzlement could not legally occur in such a relationship is the sole point which Adams advances in brief. Anno. 17 A.L.R. 982.

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Adams chose not to take the stand. All the evidence was…