Commonwealth v. Pratt

This is an indictment against the defendant charging him in fifty-two counts with larceny by embezzlement, upon twenty-nine of which the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and upon the residue of which they returned a verdict of not guilty. The indictment seems to be founded upon the Gen. Sts. o. 161, § 38; and the question is presented for our consideration, whether the indictment should have been under that section or under some other section of the same chapter, several of which relate to the subject of embezzlement. It is contended by the defendant that the treasurer of a savings bank is…