Commonwealth v. Ryan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint, for embezzlement. Trial in the Superior Court, before Thompson, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Complaint, for embezzlement. Trial in the Superior Court, before Thompson, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. It appeared in evidence that one Sullivan, who was a member of a partnership which employed the defendant, had hired two detectives to proceed to the liquor store of the firm in Boston, where the defendant was employed, and had arranged with them to have passed in the store, for the purchase of liquors from the defendant, certain marked bills; that Sullivan met one of the detectives a short distance from the store, and gave him three marked bills and a…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is a complaint for embezzlement of money. The case for the government is as follows. The defendant was employed by one Sullivan to sell liquor for him in his store. Sullivan sent two detectives to the store, with marked money of Sullivan’s, to make a feigned purchase from the defendant. One *527detective did so. The defendant dropped the money into the money drawer of a cash register, which happened to be open in connection with another sale made and registered by the defendant, but he did not register this sale, as was customary, and afterward — it would seem within, a minute or two — he…
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