State v. Lucas
Oregon Supreme Court
Multnomah County: Michael Gr. Munley, Judge. Defendant appeals. The defendant, John M. Lucas, who is an attorney of this court, was charged with the crime of larceny by bailee, on an indictment charging that on October 22, 1892, being the bailee of three hundred dollars, lawful money of the United States, the personal property of oue Ninta Parker, he feloniously embezzled and converted the same to his own use.
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Multnomah County: Michael Gr. Munley, Judge. Defendant appeals. The defendant, John M. Lucas, who is an attorney of this court, was charged with the crime of larceny by bailee, on an indictment charging that on October 22, 1892, being the bailee of three hundred dollars, lawful money of the United States, the personal property of oue Ninta Parker, he feloniously embezzled and converted the same to his own use. It appears that some time in 1892 an information was made before a magistrate charging Frank Lynch and Ninta Parker with the crime of adultery, and that defendant appeared for and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
delivered the opinion of the .court:
The indictment does not set out or allege the terms of the bailment under which defendant received possession of the money in question, nor was it necessary that it should: State v. Chew Muck You, 20 Or. 215 (25 Pac. Hep. 355). But the court, in charging the jury, after stating that among the material allegations of the indictment are (1) “that the money was put into the hands of the defendant as bailee, by Miss Parker, for a specific purpose”; (2) “and that it was to be returned to her when the object of such trust was accomplished,” and (3) “that the…
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