People v. Hanaw

The defendant is charged with embezzlement, and the evidence indicates that complainant indorsed and gave to him for collection, for his use and benefit, a check held by complainant upon a firm in New York. The defendant sent the check to New York, and received a draft payable to his order for a part of the sum, and deposited this draft with his banker, at Jackson, receiving credit for the amount. The complaint and warrant charged the embezzlement against him as “agent, clerk, servant, and collector,” and as an embezzlement of a large amount of money, to wit, $398.50, of the value of $398.50,…