Abbott v. State

RICE, Judge.

The indictment, drawn under Code, § 3966, charged that E. W. Abbott, being at the time the bailee or agent of J. T. Freeman, embezzled or fraudulently converted to his own use five bonds of the Southern Natural Gas Company, a corporation, of the aggregate value of $4,000.

According to the evidence, Abbott received the bonds from Freeman for the sole purpose of exchanging them for other specified securities. The bonds were never returned to Freeman, nor did he receive the securities for which -he had stipulated. Two of the bonds had not, at the time of the trial been accounted for,…