State v. Griswold
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Ineobmation for embezzlement, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Prentice, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court and in its denial of the defendant’s motion for a new trial upon the ground of a verdict against evidence.
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Ineobmation for embezzlement, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Prentice, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty, and appeal by the accused for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court and in its denial of the defendant’s motion for a new trial upon the ground of a verdict against evidence. The State offered evidence to prove and claimed to have proved, that the defendant was duly elected collector of town taxes of the town of Norwich on the first Monday of October, 1897; that he qualified and entered upon his duties as such collector,…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
This information is brought under § 1579 of the General Statutes of 1888, which enacts that “ every officer or agent of any public, municipal, or private corporation, . . . who shall wrongfully appropriate and convert to his own use the money, funds, or property of such corporation, . . . shall be fined,” etc. The jury found the defendant guilty of having violated that statute as charged in the information. The defendant now insists that there were various errors committed during the trial, which have vitiated that verdict. Three or four of the assignments demand careful consideration. The…
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- State v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
- City of Hartford v. FraneySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1879
- Pratt's Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1874
- State v. WaltonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1873
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