Watson v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Circuit Court of Russell. Tried before the Hon. H. D. Clayton. The indictment in this case, as twice copied in the transcript,, charged that the defendant, “Samuel "Watson,-the bailee of Samuel Reid, did envagle (?), or fraudulently convert to his own use, property, to-wit/two oxen, animals of the cow kind, de~ posited with him, the said Samuel Watson, by said Samuel Reid, who was the owner thereof, against the peace,” &c.
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From the Circuit Court of Russell. Tried before the Hon. H. D. Clayton. The indictment in this case, as twice copied in the transcript,, charged that the defendant, “Samuel "Watson,-the bailee of Samuel Reid, did envagle (?), or fraudulently convert to his own use, property, to-wit/two oxen, animals of the cow kind, de~ posited with him, the said Samuel Watson, by said Samuel Reid, who was the owner thereof, against the peace,” &c. “ On the trial,” as the bill of exceptions states, “ the evidence showed that, on the 4th January, 1881, in said county of Russell, the prosecutor .hired a yoke of…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The indictment is founded on the statute '(Code of 1876, § 4384), declaring that “any private banker, commission-merchant, factor, broker, attorney, bailee, or other agent, who embezzles, or fraudulently converts to his own use, or fraudulently secretes, with intent to convert to his own use, any money, property or effects, deposited with him, or the proceeds of any -property sold by him for another, must be punished, on conviction, as if he had stolen it.”
The material question presented is, whether a hirer qf livestock, who, during the term of hiring, sells the same, in or out of the State,…
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