The People v. Stevens

Plaintiff in error, Ernest J. Stevens, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county, with his father, James W. Stevens, and his brother, Raymond W. Stevens, charged with embezzlement under section 75 of the Criminal Code. (Smith’s Stat. 1933, p. 1030.) This section provides as follows: “If any officer, agent, clerk or servant, of any incorporated company * * * embezzles or fraudulently converts to his own use, or takes and secretes with intent so to do, without the consent of his company, employer or master, any property of such company, employer, master or another, which has come into…